Midas
/ˈmaɪ.dəs/
"midas" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Midas” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,135. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,135
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A king who sought and was for a while granted the cherished but subtly dangerous magical power to turn anything he touched into gold.
Corpus desk
Index EN-midas · Midas · English
Midas · rank #30,135 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,135
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mex
Nearest frequency peer: mex (-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 “Midas”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- McCulloch
McCulloch
69,870 corpus weight
- Mehta
Mehta
69,869 corpus weight
- methampheta…
methamphetamine
69,868 corpus weight
- mex
mex
69,867 corpus weight
- Midas
Midas
69,866 corpus weight
- modernisati…
modernisation
69,863 corpus weight
What this shows “Midas” 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 | Midas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈmaɪ.dəs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Midas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Midas (IPA /ˈmaɪ.dəs/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,135 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A king who sought and was for a while granted the cherished but subtly dangerous magical power to turn anything he touched into gold.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Midas, with forms such as "imdas", "mdias", and "midass". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "miss", "MIDI", "mina", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin Midās, from Ancient Greek Μίδᾱς (Mídās), from Phrygian Μιδας (Midas). The correct English form is Midas, spelled M-I-D-A-S.
Definition
- 1A king who sought and was for a while granted the cherished but subtly dangerous magical power to turn anything he touched into gold.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Midās, from Ancient Greek Μίδᾱς (Mídās), from Phrygian Μιδας (Midas).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imdas
- mdias
- midass
- middas
- midsa
- mmidas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Midas - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).