pursuant
/pəˈsjuː.ənt/
"pursuant" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pursuant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,793. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,793
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In conformance to, or in agreement with; used with to.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pursuant · pursuant · English
pursuant · rank #13,793 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,793
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pubs
Nearest frequency peer: pubs (-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 “pursuant”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- psalm
psalm
86,212 corpus weight
- psychiatry
psychiatry
86,211 corpus weight
- pubs
pubs
86,209 corpus weight
- pursuant
pursuant
86,208 corpus weight
- recycled
recycled
86,207 corpus weight
- repetitive
repetitive
86,205 corpus weight
What this shows “pursuant” 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 | pursuant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pəˈsjuː.ənt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “pursuant”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pursuant (IPA /pəˈsjuː.ənt/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,793 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "In conformance to, or in agreement with; used with to.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pursuant, with forms such as "ppursuant", "prusuant", and "purrsuant". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "pursuit", "pursuing", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglo-Norman pursuant, present participle of pursure. Doublet of pursuivant. The correct English form is pursuant, spelled P-U-R-S-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1In conformance to, or in agreement with; used with to.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pursuant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And pursuant to this idea of a holiday, he insisted upon playing cards after we had eaten.
Etymology
Anglo-Norman pursuant, present participle of pursure. Doublet of pursuivant.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppursuant
- prusuant
- purrsuant
- pursaunt
- purssuant
- pursuannt
- pursuantt
- pursuatn
- pursunat
- purusant
- pusruant
- uprsuant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pursuant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pursuant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).