plunder
/ˈplʌndə/
"plunder" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plunder” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #25,534. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,534
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
Corpus desk
Index EN-plunder · plunder · English
plunder · rank #25,534 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,534
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH plenary
Nearest frequency peer: plenary (-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 “plunder”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- planter
planter
74,470 corpus weight
- plat
plat
74,469 corpus weight
- plenary
plenary
74,468 corpus weight
- plunder
plunder
74,467 corpus weight
- Poseidon
Poseidon
74,466 corpus weight
- postman
postman
74,465 corpus weight
What this shows “plunder” 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 | plunder |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈplʌndə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “plunder”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around plunder (IPA /ˈplʌndə/), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,534 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for plunder, with forms such as "lpunder", "pllunder", and "plnuder". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "plunge", "ponder", "punter", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Recorded since 1632 during the Thirty Years War, native British use since the Cromwellian Civil War. Borrowed from German plündern (“to loot”), from Middle High German, from Middle Low German plunderen, from a noun originally meaning "household goods, beddi… The correct English form is plunder, spelled P-L-U-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
- 2To take (goods) by pillage.
- 3To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
- 4To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
- 5To take unexpectedly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plunder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The mercenaries plundered the small town.
The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
Etymology
Recorded since 1632 during the Thirty Years War, native British use since the Cromwellian Civil War. Borrowed from German plündern (“to loot”), from Middle High German, from Middle Low German plunderen, from a noun originally meaning "household goods, bedding, clothing," of obscure ultimate origin. This is first attested in medieval records, and according to Gijsseling, is therefore attested too late to be considered a substrate word. Due to the lack of obvious cognates in other languages from which it would have been loaned, it could have developed as some slang word in Lower Saxony/the Low Countries. Cognate with Dutch plunderen, West Frisian plonderje, Saterland Frisian plunnerje. Probably denominal from a word for “household goods, clothes, bedding”; compare Middle Dutch plunder, German Plunder (“stuff”), Dutch and West Frisian plunje (“clothes”). The Philippine definition originates with the Anti-Plunder Act (Republic Act No. 7080).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpunder
- pllunder
- plnuder
- pludner
- plundder
- plunderr
- plundre
- plunedr
- plunnder
- pplunder
- pulnder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plunder - 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.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).