listeners
/ˈlɪs(ə)nəz/
"listeners" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“listeners” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,062
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of listener
Corpus desk
Index EN-listeners · listeners · English
listeners · rank #11,062 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,062
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH linguistic
Nearest frequency peer: linguistic (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “listeners”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Klein
Klein
88,942 corpus weight
- limitation
limitation
88,941 corpus weight
- linguistic
linguistic
88,940 corpus weight
- listeners
listeners
88,939 corpus weight
- litter
litter
88,938 corpus weight
- Ls
Ls
88,937 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “listeners” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | listeners |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlɪs(ə)nəz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “listeners” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around listeners (IPA /ˈlɪs(ə)nəz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,062 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of listener".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for listeners, with forms such as "ilsteners", "lisetners", and "lissteners". 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, "listened", "listener", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 listeners, spelled L-I-S-T-E-N-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1plural of listener
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilsteners
- lisetners
- lissteners
- listeenrs
- listenerrs
- listenerss
- listenesr
- listenners
- listenres
- listneers
- listteners
- litseners
- llisteners
- lsiteners
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of listeners - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "listeners", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "listeners" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "listened". View pair
- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #11,062 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "L" letter cohort. L–Z browse
- PlainSpell rotates a curated Word of the Day from the English corpus, a passive way to discover vocabulary. Word of the Day
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.