Ophelia
/ɒˈfiː.lɪə/
"ophelia" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ophelia” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,770. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,770
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ophelia · Ophelia · English
Ophelia · rank #33,770 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,770
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH omitting
Nearest frequency peer: omitting (-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 “Ophelia”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Odysseus
Odysseus
66,235 corpus weight
- omitting
omitting
66,232 corpus weight
- Ophelia
Ophelia
66,231 corpus weight
- opinionated
opinionated
66,230 corpus weight
- oppress
oppress
66,229 corpus weight
- originator
originator
66,228 corpus weight
What this shows “Ophelia” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ophelia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɒˈfiː.lɪə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Ophelia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Ophelia (IPA /ɒˈfiː.lɪə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,770 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ophelia, with forms such as "ohpelia", "opehlia", and "opheila". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian Ofelia, coined by the poet Jacopo Sannazaro in his poem Arcadia (1504), probably from the Ancient Greek ὠφέλειᾰ (ōphéleiă, “help, aid, succour”). The name was used by William Shakespeare for the daugher of Polonius and ill-fated love i… The correct English form is Ophelia, spelled O-P-H-E-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- 2A moon of Uranus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ophelia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothers // Could not, with all their quantity of love, // Make up my sum.
The eldest daughter of a nobleman / Ophelia lived in fantasy / But love was a cold bed full of scorpions / The venom stole her sanity
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Ofelia, coined by the poet Jacopo Sannazaro in his poem Arcadia (1504), probably from the Ancient Greek ὠφέλειᾰ (ōphéleiă, “help, aid, succour”). The name was used by William Shakespeare for the daugher of Polonius and ill-fated love interest of Hamlet. The moon is named after this character. Doublet of anopheles
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ohpelia
- opehlia
- opheila
- ophelai
- ophellia
- ophhelia
- ophleia
- opphelia
- pohelia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ophelia - 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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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