schoolboy
/ˈskulˌbɔɪ/
"schoolboy" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“schoolboy” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,207. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,207
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A boy attending school.
Corpus desk
Index EN-schoolboy · schoolboy · English
schoolboy · rank #22,207 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,207
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sassy
Nearest frequency peer: sassy (-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 “schoolboy”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- saffron
saffron
77,797 corpus weight
- Salford
Salford
77,796 corpus weight
- sassy
sassy
77,795 corpus weight
- schoolboy
schoolboy
77,794 corpus weight
- Schumacher
Schumacher
77,793 corpus weight
- scoreboard
scoreboard
77,792 corpus weight
What this shows “schoolboy” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schoolboy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈskulˌbɔɪ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “schoolboy”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around schoolboy (IPA /ˈskulˌbɔɪ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,207 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A boy attending school.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for schoolboy, with forms such as "cshoolboy", "scchoolboy", and "schhoolboy". 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 its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From school + boy. The correct English form is schoolboy, spelled S-C-H-O-O-L-B-O-Y.
Definition
- 1A boy attending school.
Etymology
From school + boy.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshoolboy
- scchoolboy
- schhoolboy
- scholboy
- scholoboy
- schoobloy
- schoolbboy
- schoolboyy
- schoolbyo
- schoollboy
- schooloby
- scoholboy
- shcoolboy
- sschoolboy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schoolboy - 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 "schoolboy", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).