Petrie
"petrie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Petrie” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,175. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,175
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname transferred from the given name.
Corpus desk
Index EN-petrie · Petrie · English
Petrie · rank #30,175 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,175
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH petrochemical
Nearest frequency peer: petrochemical (+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 “Petrie”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Perl
Perl
69,829 corpus weight
- pessimism
pessimism
69,828 corpus weight
- Petrie
Petrie
69,826 corpus weight
- petrochemic…
petrochemical
69,825 corpus weight
- plums
plums
69,824 corpus weight
- polyethylene
polyethylene
69,823 corpus weight
What this shows “Petrie” 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 | Petrie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #30,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Petrie”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Petrie, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,175 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname transferred from the given name.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Petrie, with forms such as "eptrie", "pertie", and "petire". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "petrol", "Petrov", "putrid", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a Scots diminutive form of Peter and Patrick. The correct English form is Petrie, spelled P-E-T-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1A surname transferred from the given name.
Etymology
From a Scots diminutive form of Peter and Patrick.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eptrie
- pertie
- petire
- petrei
- petrrie
- pettrie
- ppetrie
- pterie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Petrie - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Petrie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).