modal
/ˈməʊdəl/
"modal" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“modal” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,521. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,521
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-modal · modal · English
modal · rank #24,521 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,521
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH modernism
Nearest frequency peer: modernism (+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 “modal”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Micah
Micah
75,486 corpus weight
- millimeter
millimeter
75,484 corpus weight
- modal
modal
75,480 corpus weight
- modernism
modernism
75,478 corpus weight
- Moira
Moira
75,477 corpus weight
- Monique
Monique
75,475 corpus weight
What this shows “modal” 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 | modal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈməʊdəl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “modal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around modal (IPA /ˈməʊdəl/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,521 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for modal, with forms such as "mdoal", "mmodal", and "moadl". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mol", "mode", "Modi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French modal, from Medieval Latin modālis (“pertaining to a mode”), from Latin modus (“mode”). Compare to French, Spanish, and Portuguese modal and Italian modale. By surface analysis, mod(e) + -al. The correct English form is modal, spelled M-O-D-A-L.
Definition
- 1Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
- 2Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
- 3Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
- 4Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
- 5Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
- 6Relating to the statistical mode.
- 7Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- 8Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
- 9Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how modal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dialogs can be modal, in which case the user is required to provide necessary information before work in the main window can continue, or modeless. Modeless dialogs do not prevent the user from interacting with any of the other windows in the application.
a modal dialog; a modal window
Etymology
From Middle French modal, from Medieval Latin modālis (“pertaining to a mode”), from Latin modus (“mode”). Compare to French, Spanish, and Portuguese modal and Italian modale. By surface analysis, mod(e) + -al.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mdoal
- mmodal
- moadl
- modall
- moddal
- modla
- omdal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of modal - 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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