licensure
"licensure" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“licensure” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #38,943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,943
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of conferring a license for an activity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-licensure · licensure · English
licensure · rank #38,943 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,943
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Leyte
Nearest frequency peer: Leyte (-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 “licensure”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- leaner
leaner
61,062 corpus weight
- leukaemia
leukaemia
61,060 corpus weight
- Leyte
Leyte
61,059 corpus weight
- licensure
licensure
61,058 corpus weight
- lingua
lingua
61,056 corpus weight
- Lipton
Lipton
61,055 corpus weight
What this shows “licensure” 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 | licensure |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “licensure”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around licensure, anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,943 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for licensure, with forms such as "ilcensure", "lciensure", and "liccensure". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "license", "licensee", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is licensure, spelled L-I-C-E-N-S-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1The act of conferring a license for an activity.
- 2The condition of being licensed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how licensure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The American Medical Association (AMA) was formed in 1845 to gain for medical doctors a monopoly on legal licensure as health practitioners. The young AMA waged fierce (and quite successful) battles to de-certify the then-dominant natural healers — a range of herbalists, midwives, and homeopathic doctors.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilcensure
- lciensure
- liccensure
- licennsure
- licensrue
- licenssure
- licensuer
- licensurre
- licenusre
- licesnure
- licnesure
- liecnsure
- llicensure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of licensure - 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 "licensure", 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).