longer
/ˈlɒŋ.ɡə/
"longer" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“longer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #713. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #713
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - comparative form of long: more long
Corpus desk
Index EN-longer · longer · English
longer · rank #713 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #713
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH let's
Nearest frequency peer: let's (-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 “longer”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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99,291 corpus weight
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99,290 corpus weight
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let's
99,289 corpus weight
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99,288 corpus weight
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99,287 corpus weight
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movie
99,286 corpus weight
What this shows “longer” 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 | longer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈlɒŋ.ɡə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “longer”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around longer (IPA /ˈlɒŋ.ɡə/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #713 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "comparative form of long: more long".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for longer, with forms such as "llonger", "lnoger", and "logner". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lower", "lover", "loser", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English longer, longere, normalisation of Middle English lenger, lengere (“longer”), from Old English lengra (“longer”), from Proto-Germanic *langizô (“longer”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), equivalent to long + -er. Cognate w… The correct English form is longer, spelled L-O-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1comparative form of long: more long
Etymology
From Middle English longer, longere, normalisation of Middle English lenger, lengere (“longer”), from Old English lengra (“longer”), from Proto-Germanic *langizô (“longer”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), equivalent to long + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian laanger (“longer”), West Frisian langer (“longer”), Dutch langer (“longer”), German länger (“longer”), Danish længere (“longer”), Swedish längre (“longer”), Icelandic lengri (“longer”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llonger
- lnoger
- logner
- lonegr
- longerr
- longger
- longre
- lonnger
- olnger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of longer - 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 "longer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).