eyre
/ɛəɹ/
"eyre" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eyre” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,442. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,442
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre)
Corpus desk
Index EN-eyre · eyre · English
eyre · rank #24,442 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,442
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH extermination
Nearest frequency peer: extermination (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “eyre”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- etching
etching
75,563 corpus weight
- exterminati…
extermination
75,560 corpus weight
- eyre
eyre
75,559 corpus weight
- fancied
fancied
75,557 corpus weight
- Fatima
Fatima
75,556 corpus weight
- Feldman
Feldman
75,555 corpus weight
What this shows “eyre” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eyre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɛəɹ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “eyre”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around eyre (IPA /ɛəɹ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,442 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for eyre, with forms such as "erye", "eyer", and "eyrre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ezra", "er", "ee", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English eire, from Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue. The correct English form is eyre, spelled E-Y-R-E.
Definition
- 1A journey taken by certain Medieval English itinerant judges (justices in eyre)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eyre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The fact that the Surrey veredicta are uncancelled, and indeed their very survival, can doubtless be explained by the suspension of the eyre in June 1294, when consideration of the crown pleas had barely begun;
None of the original veredicta survive for this eyre, but one of the best surviving examples, and the only one so far to be printed, comes from the Wiltshire eyre which began in the southern eyre circuit at Wilton on the same day as the 1281 Derbyshire eyre began at Derb, and which provides a valuable insight into the nature and contents of the lost Derby…
Etymology
From Middle English eire, from Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erye
- eyer
- eyrre
- eyyre
- yere
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of eyre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).