recreational
"recreational" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“recreational” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,191. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,191
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - For, or relating to, recreation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-recreational · recreational · English
recreational · rank #8,191 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #8,191
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Reds
Nearest frequency peer: Reds (+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 “recreational”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- prescribed
prescribed
91,814 corpus weight
- prosperity
prosperity
91,812 corpus weight
- recreational
recreational
91,810 corpus weight
- Reds
Reds
91,809 corpus weight
- refuge
refuge
91,808 corpus weight
- religions
religions
91,807 corpus weight
What this shows “recreational” 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 | recreational |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #8,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “recreational”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around recreational, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,191 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "For, or relating to, recreation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for recreational, with forms such as "ercreational", "rcereational", and "reccreational". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "recreation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From recreation + -al. The correct English form is recreational, spelled R-E-C-R-E-A-T-I-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1For, or relating to, recreation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how recreational appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This is perhaps what we call recreational reading and we may be doing something useful in supplying it, if not anything strictly educational or even librarious.
The drone crashed into a tributary of the Nanticoke River, a U.S. Coast Guard official said. The crash site has been blocked to recreational boat traffic while the agency investigates, the Coast Guard official said.
Etymology
From recreation + -al.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ercreational
- rcereational
- reccreational
- recerational
- recraetional
- recreaitonal
- recreatinoal
- recreatioanl
- recreationall
- recreationla
- recreationnal
- recreatoinal
- recreattional
- recretaional
- recrreational
- rerceational
- rrecreational
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of recreational - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "recreational", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).