node
/nəʊd/
"node" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“node” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,583. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,583
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
Corpus desk
Index EN-node · node · English
node · rank #8,583 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,583
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Nike
Nearest frequency peer: Nike (-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 “node”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- naming
naming
91,422 corpus weight
- NCAA
NCAA
91,421 corpus weight
- Nike
Nike
91,419 corpus weight
- node
node
91,418 corpus weight
- opener
opener
91,416 corpus weight
- overwhelmed
overwhelmed
91,415 corpus weight
What this shows “node” 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 | node |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /nəʊd/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “node”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around node (IPA /nəʊd/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,583 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 16 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for node, with forms such as "ndoe", "nnode", and "nodde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "not", "now", "non", 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 English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot, knout, and nodus. The correct English form is node, spelled N-O-D-E.
Definition
- 1A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- 2The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
- 3A leaf node.
- 4A computer or other device attached to a network.
- 5The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- 6The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- 7A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
- 8A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- 9A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- 10A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- 11The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- 12A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, its place in the ecliptic, etc.
- 13The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- 14A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e. the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
- 15A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
- 16A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
Etymology
From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot, knout, and nodus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ndoe
- nnode
- nodde
- noed
- onde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of node - 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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