golfer
/ˈɡɒlfə(ɹ)/
"golfer" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“golfer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,323. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,323
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who plays golf.
Corpus desk
Index EN-golfer · golfer · English
golfer · rank #18,323 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,323
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH goggles
Nearest frequency peer: goggles (-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 “golfer”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Gibraltar
Gibraltar
81,681 corpus weight
- giggle
giggle
81,680 corpus weight
- goggles
goggles
81,679 corpus weight
- golfer
golfer
81,678 corpus weight
- grammatical
grammatical
81,677 corpus weight
- graphite
graphite
81,676 corpus weight
What this shows “golfer” 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 | golfer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɒlfə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,323 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “golfer”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around golfer (IPA /ˈɡɒlfə(ɹ)/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,323 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for golfer, with forms such as "ggolfer", "glofer", and "gofler". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Gower", "gopher", "golf", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From golf + -er. The correct English form is golfer, spelled G-O-L-F-E-R.
Definition
- 1Someone who plays golf.
- 2One who takes part in code golf or regex golf.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how golfer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It had been 2,836 days since Chris Kirk last won on the PGA Tour. Yet after securing his first victory in over seven years on Sunday, that was not the first milestone the American golfer had on his mind.
“The player should usually be able to play more quickly than that and is encouraged to do so,” the guidelines state, with golfers that exceed 40 seconds – AKA “bad time” – “informed as soon as practicable” by a tournament official.
Etymology
From golf + -er.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggolfer
- glofer
- gofler
- golefr
- golferr
- golffer
- golfre
- gollfer
- oglfer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of golfer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "golfer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).