motivated
"motivated" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“motivated” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,713. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,713
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enthusiastic, especially about striving toward a goal.
Corpus desk
Index EN-motivated · motivated · English
motivated · rank #5,713 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,713
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH missile
Nearest frequency peer: missile (-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 “motivated”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- meaningful
meaningful
94,291 corpus weight
- migration
migration
94,290 corpus weight
- missile
missile
94,289 corpus weight
- motivated
motivated
94,288 corpus weight
- muscles
muscles
94,287 corpus weight
- nancy
nancy
94,286 corpus weight
What this shows “motivated” 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 | motivated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “motivated”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around motivated, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,713 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Enthusiastic, especially about striving toward a goal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for motivated, with forms such as "mmotivated", "moitvated", and "motiavted". 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, "motivator", "motivate", "mitigated", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is motivated, spelled M-O-T-I-V-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Enthusiastic, especially about striving toward a goal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how motivated appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We're looking for a highly motivated individual who will fit into our fast-paced corporate culture.
It seems reasonable to assume that academically able students are more motivated toward academic activities than those less able, and that students from higher socioeconomic levels are more motivated toward school than those from lower socioeconomic levels.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmotivated
- moitvated
- motiavted
- motivaetd
- motivatde
- motivatedd
- motivatted
- motivtaed
- motivvated
- mottivated
- motviated
- mtoivated
- omtivated
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of motivated - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).