Mayflower
"mayflower" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mayflower” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,825. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,825
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A historical ship that transported the Pilgrims to America in the year 1620.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mayflower · Mayflower · English
Mayflower · rank #35,825 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,825
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH massed
Nearest frequency peer: massed (-2 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 “Mayflower”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- margarine
margarine
64,180 corpus weight
- mashup
mashup
64,179 corpus weight
- massed
massed
64,178 corpus weight
- Mayflower
Mayflower
64,176 corpus weight
- Mekong
Mekong
64,174 corpus weight
- Melania
Melania
64,173 corpus weight
What this shows “Mayflower” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mayflower |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Mayflower”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Mayflower, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,825 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A historical ship that transported the Pilgrims to America in the year 1620.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mayflower, with forms such as "amyflower", "mafylower", and "mayfflower". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mayflower. The correct English form is Mayflower, spelled M-A-Y-F-L-O-W-E-R.
Definition
- 1A historical ship that transported the Pilgrims to America in the year 1620.
Etymology
From mayflower.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amyflower
- mafylower
- mayfflower
- mayfllower
- mayfloewr
- mayflowerr
- mayflowre
- mayflowwer
- mayflwoer
- mayfolwer
- maylfower
- mayyflower
- mmayflower
- myaflower
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mayflower - 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 "Mayflower", 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).