Missouri
/mɪˈzʊɹ.i/
"missouri" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Missouri” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,614. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,614
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Capital: Jefferson City. Largest city: Kansas City.
Corpus desk
Index EN-missouri · Missouri · English
Missouri · rank #4,614 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #4,614
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH menu
Nearest frequency peer: menu (-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 “Missouri”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- lover
lover
95,390 corpus weight
- mainstream
mainstream
95,389 corpus weight
- menu
menu
95,388 corpus weight
- Missouri
Missouri
95,387 corpus weight
- mounted
mounted
95,386 corpus weight
- mutual
mutual
95,385 corpus weight
What this shows “Missouri” 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 | Missouri |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /mɪˈzʊɹ.i/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Missouri”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Missouri (IPA /mɪˈzʊɹ.i/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,614 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Missouri, with forms such as "imssouri", "misosuri", and "misouri". 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. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Missoula", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a French adaptation of Miami wimihsoorita (“the people who have dugout canoes”), a term for the inhabitants of the area around the Missouri River. The correct English form is Missouri, spelled M-I-S-S-O-U-R-I.
Definition
- 1A state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Capital: Jefferson City. Largest city: Kansas City.
- 2The longest river in North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana and flowing roughly southeast over 2,300 miles through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri, before joining the Mississippi at St. Louis.
- 3An indigenous Siouan tribe that originally lived in the Great Lakes region of United States.
- 4A massive former territory (1812–1821) of the United States, comprising much of the Great Plains and Midwestern regions.
- 5A surname.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Missouri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft jumped into the state’s gubernatorial race last year, the Republican vowed to tackle a slew of culture war issues, promising to fight the “woke politics” of “left-wing” banks and touting how he used his position to enact a regulation targeting those financial firms.
Etymology
From a French adaptation of Miami wimihsoorita (“the people who have dugout canoes”), a term for the inhabitants of the area around the Missouri River.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imssouri
- misosuri
- misouri
- missorui
- missouir
- missourri
- missuori
- mmissouri
- msisouri
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Missouri - 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 "Missouri", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).