meditate
/ˈmɛ.dɪˌteɪt/
"meditate" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meditate” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,705. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,705
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
Corpus desk
Index EN-meditate · meditate · English
meditate · rank #20,705 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,705
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH McGrath
Nearest frequency peer: McGrath (-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 “meditate”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- maxi
maxi
79,299 corpus weight
- McGill
McGill
79,298 corpus weight
- McGrath
McGrath
79,297 corpus weight
- meditate
meditate
79,296 corpus weight
- mercenary
mercenary
79,295 corpus weight
- microscopy
microscopy
79,293 corpus weight
What this shows “meditate” 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 | meditate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈmɛ.dɪˌteɪt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “meditate”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around meditate (IPA /ˈmɛ.dɪˌteɪt/), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,705 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for meditate, with forms such as "emditate", "mdeitate", and "medditate". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "meditative", "mediate", "medicare", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: First attested in 1560; borrowed from Latin meditātus, perfect active participle of meditor (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), morphologically as if frequenta… The correct English form is meditate, spelled M-E-D-I-T-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
- 2To sit or lie down and come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious.
- 3To consider; to reflect on.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meditate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] yet I can by no means be persuaded that he could find leisure enough to write so many copies of it in his solitudes and sufferings, in the midst of treaties, in the hurry of removals, while he meditated his escape, and was strictly observ'd by his guards.
He lay and meditated the sluggishness of his bowels. This created pictures of chrome and porcelain and attendant circumstances.
Etymology
First attested in 1560; borrowed from Latin meditātus, perfect active participle of meditor (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), morphologically as if frequentative of medeor (“to heal, to cure, to remedy”); in sense and in form near to Ancient Greek μελετάω (meletáō, “to care for, attend to, study, practise, etc.”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emditate
- mdeitate
- medditate
- mediatte
- meditaet
- meditatte
- medittae
- medittate
- medtiate
- meidtate
- mmeditate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meditate - 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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