negro
/ˈniɡɹoʊ/
"negro" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“negro” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,732. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,732
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relating to a black ethnicity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-negro · negro · English
negro · rank #10,732 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,732
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH mysteries
Nearest frequency peer: mysteries (-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 “negro”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- motives
motives
89,272 corpus weight
- Myers
Myers
89,271 corpus weight
- mysteries
mysteries
89,270 corpus weight
- negro
negro
89,269 corpus weight
- notify
notify
89,267 corpus weight
- null
null
89,266 corpus weight
What this shows “negro” 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 | negro |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈniɡɹoʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “negro”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around negro (IPA /ˈniɡɹoʊ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,732 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for negro, with forms such as "engro", "neggro", and "negor". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "NGO", "ner", "nerd", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”). Doublet of noir. The correct English form is negro, spelled N-E-G-R-O.
Definition
- 1Relating to a black ethnicity.
- 2Black or dark brown in color.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how negro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Recently, on a wintry Sunday, some 2,500 white Chicago area residents embarked on a strange safari across the city, determined to do what most of them had never done before—visit a Negro home. Eager to purge themselves of ignorance about the city's "other half," they were participants in Interracial Home Visit Day, a "Coffee Klatsch" co-sponsored by local…
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”). Doublet of noir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- engro
- neggro
- negor
- negrro
- nergo
- ngero
- nnegro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of negro - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).