gravestone
/ˈɡɹeɪvstoʊn/
"gravestone" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gravestone” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,676. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,676
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A stone slab set at the head of a grave.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gravestone · gravestone · English
gravestone · rank #43,676 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,676
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH grates
Nearest frequency peer: grates (-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 “gravestone”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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goofing
56,329 corpus weight
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goverment
56,328 corpus weight
- goya
goya
56,327 corpus weight
- grates
grates
56,326 corpus weight
- gravestone
gravestone
56,325 corpus weight
- gridiron
gridiron
56,324 corpus weight
What this shows “gravestone” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gravestone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɹeɪvstoʊn/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #43,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “gravestone”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around gravestone (IPA /ˈɡɹeɪvstoʊn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,676 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A stone slab set at the head of a grave.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for gravestone, with forms such as "garvestone", "ggravestone", and "graevstone". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English graveston, gravestone, gravestan, equivalent to grave + stone. The correct English form is gravestone, spelled G-R-A-V-E-S-T-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A stone slab set at the head of a grave.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gravestone appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The value of gravestone inscriptions for ancestral research has long been recognised. The discovery of a single gravestone may provide more information on the history of a family than could be gleaned from […]
How the gravestone got inside the home in Okemos, Michigan, outside Lansing? Now that’s a mystery, according to Friends of Lansing’s Historic Cemeteries (FOLHC) President Loretta S. Stanaway.
Etymology
From Middle English graveston, gravestone, gravestan, equivalent to grave + stone.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garvestone
- ggravestone
- graevstone
- gravesotne
- gravesstone
- gravestnoe
- gravestoen
- gravestonne
- gravesttone
- gravetsone
- gravsetone
- gravvestone
- grravestone
- grvaestone
- rgavestone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gravestone - 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 "gravestone", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).