photographs
/ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæfs/
"photographs" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“photographs” has 18 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,036. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,036
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of photograph
Corpus desk
Index EN-photographs · photographs · English
photographs · rank #4,036 · 18 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,036
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH passengers
Nearest frequency peer: passengers (-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 “photographs”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- monitoring
monitoring
95,968 corpus weight
- occurs
occurs
95,967 corpus weight
- passengers
passengers
95,966 corpus weight
- photographs
photographs
95,965 corpus weight
- principle
principle
95,964 corpus weight
- progressive
progressive
95,962 corpus weight
What this shows “photographs” 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 | photographs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæfs/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “photographs”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around photographs (IPA /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæfs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,036 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of photograph".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for photographs, with forms such as "hpotographs", "phhotographs", and "phootgraphs". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "photography", "photograph", "phonograph", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is photographs, spelled P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-S.
Definition
- 1plural of photograph
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hpotographs
- phhotographs
- phootgraphs
- photgoraphs
- photogarphs
- photoggraphs
- photograhps
- photographhs
- photographss
- photograpphs
- photograpsh
- photogrpahs
- photogrraphs
- photorgaphs
- phottographs
- phtoographs
- pohtographs
- pphotographs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of photographs - 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 "photographs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).