scammer
/ˈskæmə/
"scammer" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scammer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,959. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,959
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who commits fraud by making dishonest scams and business deals: swindler, cheat, grifter.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scammer · scammer · English
scammer · rank #30,959 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,959
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Schubert
Nearest frequency peer: Schubert (+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 “scammer”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Saxony
Saxony
69,044 corpus weight
- scammer
scammer
69,042 corpus weight
- Schubert
Schubert
69,041 corpus weight
- Scottie
Scottie
69,040 corpus weight
- searing
searing
69,039 corpus weight
- secreted
secreted
69,038 corpus weight
What this shows “scammer” 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 | scammer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈskæmə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “scammer”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around scammer (IPA /ˈskæmə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,959 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A person who commits fraud by making dishonest scams and business deals: swindler, cheat, grifter.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for scammer, with forms such as "csammer", "sacmmer", and "scamemr". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "summer", "simmer", "Sommer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From scam + -er. The correct English form is scammer, spelled S-C-A-M-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who commits fraud by making dishonest scams and business deals: swindler, cheat, grifter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scammer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
According to Netsafe, scammers send out a bunch of emails, hoping to snag a few gullible people, but simply deleting the offending email won’t do anything to impede the con.
TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.
Etymology
From scam + -er.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csammer
- sacmmer
- scamemr
- scamer
- scammerr
- scammre
- sccammer
- scmamer
- sscammer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scammer - 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 "scammer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).