homer
/ˈhəʊmə/
"homer" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“homer” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,435. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,435
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+¹⁄₂ US bushels.
Corpus desk
Index EN-homer · homer · English
homer · rank #8,435 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,435
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH holocaust
Nearest frequency peer: holocaust (-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 “homer”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- heir
heir
91,569 corpus weight
- holocaust
holocaust
91,567 corpus weight
- homer
homer
91,566 corpus weight
- hon
hon
91,565 corpus weight
- Hopkins
Hopkins
91,564 corpus weight
- imprisonment
imprisonment
91,563 corpus weight
What this shows “homer” 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 | homer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhəʊmə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “homer”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around homer (IPA /ˈhəʊmə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,435 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for homer, with forms such as "hhomer", "hmoer", and "hoemr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hor", "hope", "hour", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Hebrew חומר / חֹמֶר (khómer, “clay, heap, large unit of volume”). The correct English form is homer, spelled H-O-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+¹⁄₂ US bushels.
- 2Synonym of cor: approximately the same volume as a liquid measure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how homer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Head up! For every newbegotten thou shalt gather thy homer of ripe wheat.
Etymology
From Hebrew חומר / חֹמֶר (khómer, “clay, heap, large unit of volume”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhomer
- hmoer
- hoemr
- homerr
- hommer
- homre
- ohmer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of homer - 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 "homer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).