murderer
/ˈmɜːdəɹə/
"murderer" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“murderer” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,368. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,368
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who commits murder.
Corpus desk
Index EN-murderer · murderer · English
murderer · rank #9,368 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,368
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH nap
Nearest frequency peer: nap (+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 “murderer”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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metallic
90,637 corpus weight
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methodology
90,636 corpus weight
- murderer
murderer
90,633 corpus weight
- nap
nap
90,632 corpus weight
- nickel
nickel
90,631 corpus weight
- niece
niece
90,630 corpus weight
What this shows “murderer” 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 | murderer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɜːdəɹə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “murderer”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around murderer (IPA /ˈmɜːdəɹə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,368 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A person who commits murder.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for murderer, with forms such as "mmurderer", "mruderer", and "mudrerer". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "murder", "murdered", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English murderere; equivalent to murder + -er. The correct English form is murderer, spelled M-U-R-D-E-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who commits murder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how murderer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.
It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; […]
Etymology
From Middle English murderere; equivalent to murder + -er.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmurderer
- mruderer
- mudrerer
- murdderer
- murdeerr
- murdererr
- murderre
- murderrer
- murdreer
- muredrer
- murrderer
- umrderer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of murderer - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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