hydraulic
/haɪˈdɹɒlɪk/
"hydraulic" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hydraulic” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,865. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,865
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pertaining to water.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hydraulic · hydraulic · English
hydraulic · rank #10,865 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,865
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hulk
Nearest frequency peer: hulk (-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 “hydraulic”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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homosexual
89,138 corpus weight
- hulk
hulk
89,137 corpus weight
- hydraulic
hydraulic
89,136 corpus weight
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impulse
89,135 corpus weight
- incapable
incapable
89,134 corpus weight
- Indies
Indies
89,133 corpus weight
What this shows “hydraulic” 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 | hydraulic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /haɪˈdɹɒlɪk/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hydraulic”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around hydraulic (IPA /haɪˈdɹɒlɪk/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,865 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for hydraulic, with forms such as "hdyraulic", "hhydraulic", and "hydarulic". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "hydraulics", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French hydraulique, from Latin hydraulicus, from Ancient Greek ὑδραυλικός (hudraulikós, “of a water organ”), from ὕδραυλις (húdraulis, “water organ”), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”). The correct English form is hydraulic, spelled H-Y-D-R-A-U-L-I-C.
Definition
- 1Pertaining to water.
- 2Related to, or operated by, hydraulics.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hydraulic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tho' there are but seventeen feet water^([sic]) in the channel, I have seen vessels of five hundred ton enter into it. I know not why this entrance is left so neglected, as we are not in want of able engineers in France, in the hydraulic branch, a part of the mathematics to which I have most applyed^([sic]) myself.
A hydraulic press is operated by the differential pressure of water on pistons of different dimensions.
Etymology
From French hydraulique, from Latin hydraulicus, from Ancient Greek ὑδραυλικός (hudraulikós, “of a water organ”), from ὕδραυλις (húdraulis, “water organ”), from ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + αὐλός (aulós, “pipe”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hdyraulic
- hhydraulic
- hydarulic
- hyddraulic
- hydraluic
- hydrauilc
- hydraulci
- hydraulicc
- hydraullic
- hydrraulic
- hydrualic
- hyrdaulic
- hyydraulic
- yhdraulic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hydraulic - 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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Same letter count
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