repairman
"repairman" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“repairman” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,865. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,865
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male repairer, a man who repairs things.
Corpus desk
Index EN-repairman · repairman · English
repairman · rank #47,865 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,865
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rescuer
Nearest frequency peer: rescuer (+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 “repairman”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- readied
readied
52,141 corpus weight
- reiki
reiki
52,139 corpus weight
- repairman
repairman
52,136 corpus weight
- rescuer
rescuer
52,135 corpus weight
- rialto
rialto
52,132 corpus weight
- ridgeway
ridgeway
52,131 corpus weight
What this shows “repairman” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | repairman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #47,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “repairman”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around repairman, anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,865 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A male repairer, a man who repairs things.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for repairman, with forms such as "erpairman", "reapirman", and "repaimran". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From repair + -man. The correct English form is repairman, spelled R-E-P-A-I-R-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A male repairer, a man who repairs things.
Etymology
From repair + -man.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erpairman
- reapirman
- repaimran
- repairamn
- repairmann
- repairmman
- repairmna
- repairrman
- repariman
- repiarman
- reppairman
- rpeairman
- rrepairman
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of repairman - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "repairman", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).