quarry
/ˈkwɒɹ.i/
"quarry" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quarry” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,047
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quarry · quarry · English
quarry · rank #13,047 · 7 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,047
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH prosperous
Nearest frequency peer: prosperous (-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 “quarry”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- prolific
prolific
86,957 corpus weight
- proportional
proportional
86,956 corpus weight
- prosperous
prosperous
86,955 corpus weight
- quarry
quarry
86,954 corpus weight
- referral
referral
86,953 corpus weight
- repost
repost
86,952 corpus weight
What this shows “quarry” 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 | quarry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkwɒɹ.i/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “quarry”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around quarry (IPA /ˈkwɒɹ.i/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,047 among 288 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for quarry, with forms such as "qaurry", "qquarry", and "quarryy". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "quay", "query", "quart", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“I square”), itself from quadra (“a… The correct English form is quarry, spelled Q-U-A-R-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quarry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.
Yet theſe are the men cry'd out againſt for ſchiſmaticks and ſectaries; as if, while the Temple of the Lord was building, ſome cutting, ſome ſquaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there ſhould be a ſort of irrationall men who could not conſider there muſt be many ſchiſms and many diſſections made in the quarry and the timber, ere the houſe of God…
Etymology
From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“I square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaurry
- qquarry
- quarryy
- quary
- quaryr
- qurary
- uqarry
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quarry - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).