island
/ˈaɪlənd/
"island" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“island” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,052. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,052
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
Corpus desk
Index EN-island · island · English
island · rank #1,052 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,052
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH gas
Nearest frequency peer: gas (-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 “island”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- double
double
98,952 corpus weight
- expect
expect
98,951 corpus weight
- gas
gas
98,950 corpus weight
- island
island
98,949 corpus weight
- moved
moved
98,948 corpus weight
- normal
normal
98,947 corpus weight
What this shows “island” 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 | island |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈaɪlənd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “island”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around island (IPA /ˈaɪlənd/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,052 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for island, with forms such as "ilsand", "isalnd", and "isladn". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Islands", "islander", "Isla", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ Proto-Germanic *awjō Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland Old English īeġland Middle English ilond English iland Engl… The correct English form is island, spelled I-S-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
- 2A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; a peninsula; a half-island.
- 3An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
- 4A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
- 5A traffic island.
- 6A roundabout; a traffic circle.
- 7A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
- 8A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
- 9An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
- 10A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how island appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
It's only an island if you look at it from the water…
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ Proto-Germanic *awjō Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland Old English īeġland Middle English ilond English iland English island From earlier iland, from Middle English iland, yland, ylond, from Old English īeġland, from Proto-West Germanic *auwjuland, from Proto-Germanic *awjōlandą (from Proto-Germanic *awjō (“island, waterland, meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂) + *landą (“land”), equivalent to ey + land. Doublet of Öland. Cognate with Scots island, iland, yland (“island”), West Frisian eilân (“island”), Saterland Frisian Ailound (“island”), Dutch eiland (“island”), Low German Eiland (“island”), German Eiland (“island”), Swedish ö (“island”), Öland (“Sweden's second largest island”), Danish ø (“island”), Norwegian øy (“island”), øyland (“large island”), Icelandic eyland (“island”). The insertion of ⟨s⟩—a 16th century spelling modification—is due to a change in spelling to the unrelated term isle, which previously lacked s (cf. Middle English ile, yle). The re-addition was mistakenly carried over to include iland as well. Related also to German Aue (“water-meadow”), Latin aqua (“water”). More at ea.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilsand
- isalnd
- isladn
- islandd
- islannd
- islland
- islnad
- issland
- siland
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of island - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).