resourceful
"resourceful" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“resourceful” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,229. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,229
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Capable or clever; able to put available resources to efficient or ingenious use; using materials at hand wisely or efficiently.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | resourceful |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #26,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “resourceful” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around resourceful, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,229 among 21,470 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Capable or clever; able to put available resources to efficient or ingenious use; using materials at hand wisely or efficiently.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for resourceful, with forms such as "ersourceful", "reosurceful", and "resoruceful". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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 resource + -ful. The correct English form is resourceful, spelled R-E-S-O-U-R-C-E-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1Capable or clever; able to put available resources to efficient or ingenious use; using materials at hand wisely or efficiently.
Etymology
From resource + -ful.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ersourceful
- reosurceful
- resoruceful
- resoucreful
- resourcceful
- resourcefful
- resourceflu
- resourcefull
- resourceufl
- resourcfeul
- resourecful
- resourrceful
- ressourceful
- resuorceful
- rresourceful
- rseourceful
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of resourceful - 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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Using “resourceful”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-S-O-U-R-C-E-F-U-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.