GPA
"gpa" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“GPA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,126) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,126
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of grade point average.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gpa · GPA · English
GPA · rank #14,126 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,126
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH fugitive
Nearest frequency peer: fugitive (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “GPA”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- flair
flair
85,878 corpus weight
- fugitive
fugitive
85,876 corpus weight
- GPA
GPA
85,875 corpus weight
- Greenwich
Greenwich
85,874 corpus weight
- Gujarat
Gujarat
85,873 corpus weight
- hah
hah
85,872 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “GPA” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | GPA |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “GPA”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for GPA is neighbouring look-alikes ("GS", "GR", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #14,126 among 2,313 “G” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for GPA, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "GS", "GR", "GU", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is GPA, spelled G-P-A.
Definition
- 1Initialism of grade point average.
- 2GMP payment age
- 3Initialism of granulomatosis with polyangiitis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how GPA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He said those recruiting for technical jobs like engineering might be more likely to restrict their search to candidates with high GPAs from specific schools.
He had a 0.13 GPA and was still in ninth grade. With a class rank of 62 out of 120, he was being promoted through the course levels, which led France to believe everything was fine when it wasn’t.
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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