generations
/ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃənz/
"generations" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“generations” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,383. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,383
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of generation
Corpus desk
Index EN-generations · generations · English
generations · rank #4,383 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,383
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH furniture
Nearest frequency peer: furniture (-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 “generations”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- franchise
franchise
95,621 corpus weight
- funded
funded
95,620 corpus weight
- furniture
furniture
95,619 corpus weight
- generations
generations
95,618 corpus weight
- guaranteed
guaranteed
95,617 corpus weight
- integrated
integrated
95,616 corpus weight
What this shows “generations” 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 | generations |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃənz/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “generations”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around generations (IPA /ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃənz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,383 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of generation".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for generations, with forms such as "egnerations", "geenrations", and "geneartions". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "generation", "generational", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is generations, spelled G-E-N-E-R-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1plural of generation
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egnerations
- geenrations
- geneartions
- generaitons
- generatinos
- generationns
- generationss
- generatiosn
- generatoins
- generattions
- generrations
- genertaions
- gennerations
- genreations
- ggenerations
- gneerations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of generations - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "generations", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).