plaintiff
/ˈpleɪntɪf/
"plaintiff" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plaintiff” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,982. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,982
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accuser.
Corpus desk
Index EN-plaintiff · plaintiff · English
plaintiff · rank #13,982 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,982
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH plum
Nearest frequency peer: plum (+2 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 “plaintiff”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Phelps
Phelps
86,023 corpus weight
- phi
phi
86,022 corpus weight
- plaintiff
plaintiff
86,019 corpus weight
- plum
plum
86,017 corpus weight
- plural
plural
86,016 corpus weight
- Poe
Poe
86,015 corpus weight
What this shows “plaintiff” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaintiff |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpleɪntɪf/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “plaintiff”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around plaintiff (IPA /ˈpleɪntɪf/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,982 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accuser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for plaintiff, with forms such as "lpaintiff", "palintiff", and "plainitff". 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English plaintif, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French plaintif (“complaining”; as a noun, “one who complains, a plaintiff”) from the verb plaindre. Doublet of plaintive. The correct English form is plaintiff, spelled P-L-A-I-N-T-I-F-F.
Definition
- 1A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accuser.
Etymology
From Middle English plaintif, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French plaintif (“complaining”; as a noun, “one who complains, a plaintiff”) from the verb plaindre. Doublet of plaintive.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpaintiff
- palintiff
- plainitff
- plainntiff
- plaintfif
- plaintif
- plainttiff
- plaitniff
- planitiff
- pliantiff
- pllaintiff
- pplaintiff
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plaintiff - 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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