Kandy
"kandy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kandy” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,843. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,843
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the capital of Central Province, Sri Lanka.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kandy · Kandy · English
Kandy · rank #48,843 · 8 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,843
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kamloops
Nearest frequency peer: Kamloops (-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 “Kandy”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Kamloops
Kamloops
51,159 corpus weight
- Kandy
Kandy
51,158 corpus weight
- Kaoru
Kaoru
51,157 corpus weight
- Kazuo
Kazuo
51,156 corpus weight
- Kempton
Kempton
51,155 corpus weight
- Kenilworth
Kenilworth
51,153 corpus weight
What this shows “Kandy” 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 | Kandy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Kandy”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Kandy, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,843 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A city, the capital of Central Province, Sri Lanka.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kandy, with forms such as "akndy", "kadny", and "kanddy". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "kay", "kind", "Kane", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Tamil கண்டி (kaṇṭi), possibly further from Sinhalese [Term?], ultimately from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa); or possibly from Portuguese Candea, Sinhalese කන්ද උඩරට (kanda uḍaraṭa, “land on the mountain”), ultimately from Sinhalese කන්ද (kanda, “a mountain”). The correct English form is Kandy, spelled K-A-N-D-Y.
Definition
- 1A city, the capital of Central Province, Sri Lanka.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kandy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
‘Something will always fall on your head,’ you say. ‘I’ve worked on construction sites in Kandy,’ she says. ‘You don’t need to tell me that.’
Etymology
From Tamil கண்டி (kaṇṭi), possibly further from Sinhalese [Term?], ultimately from Sanskrit खण्ड (khaṇḍa); or possibly from Portuguese Candea, Sinhalese කන්ද උඩරට (kanda uḍaraṭa, “land on the mountain”), ultimately from Sinhalese කන්ද (kanda, “a mountain”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- akndy
- kadny
- kanddy
- kandyy
- kanndy
- kanyd
- kkandy
- knady
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Kandy - 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
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).