scholastic
/skəˈlæstɪk/
"scholastic" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scholastic” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,806. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,806
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scholastic · scholastic · English
scholastic · rank #22,806 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,806
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH scourge
Nearest frequency peer: scourge (+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 “scholastic”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Roxy
Roxy
77,199 corpus weight
- sacrament
sacrament
77,197 corpus weight
- scholastic
scholastic
77,195 corpus weight
- scourge
scourge
77,194 corpus weight
- Seville
Seville
77,193 corpus weight
- shopper
shopper
77,192 corpus weight
What this shows “scholastic” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scholastic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /skəˈlæstɪk/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #22,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “scholastic”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around scholastic (IPA /skəˈlæstɪk/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,806 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for scholastic, with forms such as "csholastic", "sccholastic", and "schholastic". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek σχολαστικός (skholastikós). The correct English form is scholastic, spelled S-C-H-O-L-A-S-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek σχολαστικός (skholastikós).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csholastic
- sccholastic
- schholastic
- schloastic
- schoalstic
- scholasitc
- scholasstic
- scholastci
- scholasticc
- scholasttic
- scholatsic
- schollastic
- scholsatic
- scohlastic
- shcolastic
- sscholastic
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scholastic - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).