painters
"painters" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“painters” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,781. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,781
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of painter
Corpus desk
Index EN-painters · painters · English
painters · rank #13,781 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,781
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pagan
Nearest frequency peer: pagan (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “painters”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- paced
paced
86,222 corpus weight
- pagan
pagan
86,221 corpus weight
- painters
painters
86,220 corpus weight
- planetary
planetary
86,218 corpus weight
- playboy
playboy
86,217 corpus weight
- porcelain
porcelain
86,216 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “painters” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | painters |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,781 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “painters” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around painters, anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,781 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of painter".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for painters, with forms such as "apinters", "painetrs", and "painnters". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "paints", "pinter", "printer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is painters, spelled P-A-I-N-T-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1plural of painter
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how painters appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is work to ride head up and holy here. It is painters with slack in their brush, painters all jacked up on stampede dust just tryin' to get it right. I've been trying to get it right. I've been learning here how to grow larger […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apinters
- painetrs
- painnters
- painterrs
- painterss
- paintesr
- paintres
- paintters
- paitners
- paniters
- pianters
- ppainters
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of painters - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "painters", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "painters" maps to 8 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "paints". View pair
- 12 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #13,781 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
- PlainSpell rotates a curated Word of the Day from the English corpus, a passive way to discover vocabulary. Word of the Day
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.