Proverbs
"proverbs" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Proverbs” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,192. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,192
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.
Corpus desk
Index EN-proverbs · Proverbs · English
Proverbs · rank #20,192 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,192
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH prem
Nearest frequency peer: prem (-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 “Proverbs”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- predicament
predicament
79,812 corpus weight
- predominant
predominant
79,811 corpus weight
- prem
prem
79,810 corpus weight
- Proverbs
Proverbs
79,809 corpus weight
- puke
puke
79,808 corpus weight
- puzzled
puzzled
79,807 corpus weight
What this shows “Proverbs” 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 | Proverbs |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Proverbs”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Proverbs, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,192 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Proverbs, with forms such as "porverbs", "pproverbs", and "proevrbs". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "proves", "proverb", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Proverbs, spelled P-R-O-V-E-R-B-S.
Definition
- 1A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Proverbs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Proverbs are an excellent springboard for broad-ranging Bible study. If you study Solomon’s pearls of wisdom, you will find the Spirit of God leading you (by chain references or quiet remembrance) all over the Old and New Testaments for confirming, clarifying examples.
Erman’s remark (1924) that a decent wisdom book was destroyed when it was absorbed into the book of Proverbs coheres well with the scholarly consensus that Proverbs is a clumsy accretion of ill-digested material.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porverbs
- pproverbs
- proevrbs
- provebrs
- proverbbs
- proverbss
- proverrbs
- proversb
- provrebs
- provverbs
- prroverbs
- prvoerbs
- rpoverbs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Proverbs - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).