freeman
/ˈfɹiː.mən/
"freeman" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“freeman” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,182. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,182
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A free person
Corpus desk
Index EN-freeman · freeman · English
freeman · rank #9,182 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,182
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Floyd
Nearest frequency peer: Floyd (-2 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 “freeman”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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90,823 corpus weight
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90,822 corpus weight
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Floyd
90,821 corpus weight
- freeman
freeman
90,819 corpus weight
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Gandhi
90,817 corpus weight
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gateway
90,816 corpus weight
What this shows “freeman” 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 | freeman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfɹiː.mən/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “freeman”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around freeman (IPA /ˈfɹiː.mən/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,182 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for freeman, with forms such as "fereman", "ffreeman", and "freeamn". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "freeway", "freshman", "Friedman", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English frēomann, equivalent to free + -man and paralleled by similar constructions in other Germanic languages. Doublet of preman. The correct English form is freeman, spelled F-R-E-E-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A free person
- 2A free person
- 3A free person
- 4A free person
- 5A free person
- 6A free person
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how freeman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Etymology
From Old English frēomann, equivalent to free + -man and paralleled by similar constructions in other Germanic languages. Doublet of preman.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fereman
- ffreeman
- freeamn
- freemann
- freemman
- freemna
- freman
- fremean
- frreeman
- rfeeman
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of freeman - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "freeman", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).