homicidal
"homicidal" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“homicidal” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,284. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,284
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or pertaining to homicide.
Corpus desk
Index EN-homicidal · homicidal · English
homicidal · rank #40,284 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #40,284
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hurrying
Nearest frequency peer: hurrying (+2 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 “homicidal”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hastened
hastened
59,722 corpus weight
- Hoff
Hoff
59,720 corpus weight
- homicidal
homicidal
59,717 corpus weight
- hurrying
hurrying
59,715 corpus weight
- hyacinth
hyacinth
59,714 corpus weight
- hydroxy
hydroxy
59,713 corpus weight
What this shows “homicidal” 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 | homicidal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “homicidal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around homicidal, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,284 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for homicidal, with forms such as "hhomicidal", "hmoicidal", and "hoimcidal". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "homicide", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From homicide + -al. The correct English form is homicidal, spelled H-O-M-I-C-I-D-A-L.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to homicide.
- 2Having an inclination to commit homicide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how homicidal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The current editor-in-chief, Stagyar-zil-Doggo, was a dangerously unbalanced man who took a homicidal view of contributing staff turning up in his office without pages of fresh, proofed copy, […]
An apparent deterioration in productivity during the twentieth century [in the northern Horn] has undoubtedly been linked with the enormous increase in human population brought about by a combination of improved medical facilities and the discouragement of homicidal activities.
Etymology
From homicide + -al.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhomicidal
- hmoicidal
- hoimcidal
- homciidal
- homiccidal
- homicdial
- homiciadl
- homicidall
- homiciddal
- homicidla
- homiicdal
- hommicidal
- ohmicidal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of homicidal - 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 "homicidal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).