postmortem
"postmortem" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“postmortem” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,488. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,488
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative form of post mortem.
Corpus desk
Index EN-postmortem · postmortem · English
postmortem · rank #39,488 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,488
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 46,516
- PHOTO-FINISH postscript
Nearest frequency peer: postscript (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “postmortem”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pocketed
pocketed
60,517 corpus weight
- Ponte
Ponte
60,516 corpus weight
- postmortem
postmortem
60,513 corpus weight
- postscript
postscript
60,512 corpus weight
- prehistory
prehistory
60,511 corpus weight
- preterm
preterm
60,510 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “postmortem” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postmortem |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #39,488 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “postmortem” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around postmortem, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,488 among 46,516 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative form of post mortem.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for postmortem, with forms such as "opstmortem", "posmtortem", and "posstmortem". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is postmortem, spelled P-O-S-T-M-O-R-T-E-M.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of post mortem.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opstmortem
- posmtortem
- posstmortem
- postmmortem
- postmoretm
- postmorrtem
- postmortemm
- postmortme
- postmorttem
- postmotrem
- postmrotem
- postomrtem
- posttmortem
- potsmortem
- ppostmortem
- psotmortem
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of postmortem - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "postmortem", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.