planet
/ˈplænɪt/
"planet" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“planet” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #2,123. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,123
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Corpus desk
Index EN-planet · planet · English
planet · rank #2,123 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,123
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH performed
Nearest frequency peer: performed (-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 “planet”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- officials
officials
97,881 corpus weight
- people's
people's
97,880 corpus weight
- performed
performed
97,879 corpus weight
- planet
planet
97,878 corpus weight
- restaurant
restaurant
97,876 corpus weight
- Scotland
Scotland
97,875 corpus weight
What this shows “planet” 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 | planet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈplænɪt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “planet”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around planet (IPA /ˈplænɪt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,123 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for planet, with forms such as "lpanet", "palnet", and "plaent". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plat", "plans", "plant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English planete, from Old French planete, from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”) (itself an ellipsis of ἀστέρες πλανῆται (astéres planêtai, “wandering stars”)), from Ancient Greek πλανάω (planáō, “wander… The correct English form is planet, spelled P-L-A-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
- 2Any body that orbits the Sun, including the asteroids (as minor planets) and sometimes the moons of those bodies (as satellite planets)
- 3A body which is massive enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium (generally resulting in being an ellipsoid) but not enough to attain nuclear fusion and, in IAU usage, which directly orbits a star (or multiple star) and dominates the region of its orbit; specifically, in the case of the Solar system, the eight major bodies of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- 4construed with the or this: The Earth.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how planet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Be they not dreames of humane vanity,[…]to make of our knowne earth a bright shining planet [translating astre]?
The moon[…]began to rise from her bed, where she had slumbered away the day, in order to sit up all night. Jones had not travelled far before he paid his compliments to that beautiful planet, and, turning to his companion, asked him if he had ever beheld so delicious an evening?
Etymology
From Middle English planete, from Old French planete, from Latin planeta, planetes, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer”) (itself an ellipsis of ἀστέρες πλανῆται (astéres planêtai, “wandering stars”)), from Ancient Greek πλανάω (planáō, “wander about, stray”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Latin pālor (“wander about, stray”), Old Norse flana (“to rush about”), and Norwegian flanta (“to wander about”). More at flaunt. So called because they have apparent motion, unlike the "fixed" stars. Originally including also the moon and sun but not the Earth; modern scientific sense of "world that orbits a star" is from 1630s in English. The Greek word is an enlarged form of πλάνης (plánēs, “who wanders around, wanderer”), also "wandering star, planet", in medicine "unstable temperature."
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpanet
- palnet
- plaent
- planett
- plannet
- plante
- pllanet
- plnaet
- pplanet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of planet - 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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