salesman
"salesman" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“salesman” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,319. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,319
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A man whose job it is to sell things, either in a shop / store or elsewhere.
Corpus desk
Index EN-salesman · salesman · English
salesman · rank #12,319 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,319
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Russ
Nearest frequency peer: Russ (-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 “salesman”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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rift
87,685 corpus weight
- Romney
Romney
87,684 corpus weight
- Russ
Russ
87,683 corpus weight
- salesman
salesman
87,682 corpus weight
- scarlet
scarlet
87,681 corpus weight
- sensing
sensing
87,679 corpus weight
What this shows “salesman” 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 | salesman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “salesman”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around salesman, anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,319 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A man whose job it is to sell things, either in a shop / store or elsewhere.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for salesman, with forms such as "aslesman", "saelsman", and "salemsan". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Salman", "Suleiman", "statesman", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sales + -man. The correct English form is salesman, spelled S-A-L-E-S-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A man whose job it is to sell things, either in a shop / store or elsewhere.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how salesman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was an auto salesman in here yesterday that claimed you could always tell a fellow's class by the car he drove, but I says to him, 'Don't be silly,' I says; 'the wisenheimers grab a look at a fellow's nails when they want to tell if he's a tin-horn or a real gent!"'
Would you say it was fair to describe these salesmen that were in your crews as dynamiters, or suede shoe salesmen?
Etymology
From sales + -man.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aslesman
- saelsman
- salemsan
- salesamn
- salesmann
- salesmman
- salesmna
- salessman
- sallesman
- salseman
- slaesman
- ssalesman
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of salesman - 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 "salesman", 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).