schoolchildren
"schoolchildren" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“schoolchildren” has 23 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,751. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,751
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 23
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of schoolchild
Corpus desk
Index EN-schoolchildren · schoolchildren · English
schoolchildren · rank #31,751 · 23 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,751
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 23 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH Schaefer
Nearest frequency peer: Schaefer (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “schoolchildren”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- scalar
scalar
68,253 corpus weight
- Scalia
Scalia
68,252 corpus weight
- Schaefer
Schaefer
68,251 corpus weight
- schoolchild…
schoolchildren
68,250 corpus weight
- Schwarz
Schwarz
68,249 corpus weight
- scrapbook
scrapbook
68,248 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “schoolchildren” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | schoolchildren |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #31,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 23 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “schoolchildren” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 23 spelling variants around schoolchildren, anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,751 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of schoolchild".
Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for schoolchildren, with forms such as "cshoolchildren", "scchoolchildren", and "schhoolchildren". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is schoolchildren, spelled S-C-H-O-O-L-C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N.
Definition
- 1plural of schoolchild
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cshoolchildren
- scchoolchildren
- schhoolchildren
- scholchildren
- scholochildren
- schooclhildren
- schoolcchildren
- schoolchhildren
- schoolchidlren
- schoolchilddren
- schoolchildern
- schoolchildrenn
- schoolchildrne
- schoolchildrren
- schoolchilldren
- schoolchilrden
- schoolchlidren
- schoolcihldren
- schoolhcildren
- schoollchildren
- scoholchildren
- shcoolchildren
- sschoolchildren
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of schoolchildren - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "schoolchildren", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (23 here; floor ≥5).
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.