nostalgic
"nostalgic" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nostalgic” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,083. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,083
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nostalgic · nostalgic · English
nostalgic · rank #16,083 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,083
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH NRA
Nearest frequency peer: NRA (+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 “nostalgic”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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neuroscience
83,922 corpus weight
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Niger
83,921 corpus weight
- nipple
nipple
83,920 corpus weight
- nostalgic
nostalgic
83,918 corpus weight
- NRA
NRA
83,917 corpus weight
- oppressive
oppressive
83,915 corpus weight
What this shows “nostalgic” 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 | nostalgic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “nostalgic”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around nostalgic, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,083 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for nostalgic, with forms such as "nnostalgic", "nosatlgic", and "nosstalgic". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "nostalgia", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From nostalgia + -ic. The correct English form is nostalgic, spelled N-O-S-T-A-L-G-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nostalgic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And here, as I write, the faint, scarcely perceptible, ghost-like suspicion of a scent—a mere nostalgic fancy, compound, generic, synthetic and all-embracing—an abstract olfactory symbol of the "Tout Paris" of fifty years ago, comes back to me out of the past; and fain would I inhale it in all its pristine fulness and vigour.
And it was their voices which affected Gudrun almost to swooning. They aroused a strange, nostalgic ache of desire, something almost demoniacal, never to be fulfilled.
Etymology
From nostalgia + -ic.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnostalgic
- nosatlgic
- nosstalgic
- nostaglic
- nostalgci
- nostalggic
- nostalgicc
- nostaligc
- nostallgic
- nostlagic
- nosttalgic
- notsalgic
- nsotalgic
- onstalgic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nostalgic - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "nostalgic", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).