fifteen
/ˈfɪf.tiːn/
"fifteen" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fifteen” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,681. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,681
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).
Corpus desk
Index EN-fifteen · fifteen · English
fifteen · rank #5,681 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,681
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH farms
Nearest frequency peer: farms (-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 “fifteen”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Emily
Emily
94,323 corpus weight
- encouraging
encouraging
94,322 corpus weight
- farms
farms
94,321 corpus weight
- fifteen
fifteen
94,320 corpus weight
- flows
flows
94,319 corpus weight
- Ga
Ga
94,318 corpus weight
What this shows “fifteen” 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 | fifteen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | /ˈfɪf.tiːn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “fifteen”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around fifteen (IPA /ˈfɪf.tiːn/), anumeral. Corpus frequency is #5,681 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for fifteen, with forms such as "ffifteen", "ffiteen", and "fifeten". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "fifties", "fifteenth", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Cognate with West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten. Equivalent to five + -teen. The correct English form is fifteen, spelled F-I-F-T-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fifteen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The fifteen men are, of course, the fifteen allies and the dead man's chest is the strategic principle on which their alliance is founded and which is now moribund.
She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.
Etymology
PIE word *pénkʷe From Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Cognate with West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten. Equivalent to five + -teen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffifteen
- ffiteen
- fifeten
- fiffteen
- fifteenn
- fiften
- fiftene
- fiftteen
- fitfeen
- iffteen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fifteen - 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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