sculptor
/ˈskʌlptɚ/
"sculptor" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sculptor” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,687. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,687
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sculptor · sculptor · English
sculptor · rank #18,687 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,687
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sami
Nearest frequency peer: Sami (-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 “sculptor”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- rotting
rotting
81,317 corpus weight
- Salman
Salman
81,316 corpus weight
- Sami
Sami
81,315 corpus weight
- sculptor
sculptor
81,314 corpus weight
- shalt
shalt
81,312 corpus weight
- sheen
sheen
81,311 corpus weight
What this shows “sculptor” 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 | sculptor |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈskʌlptɚ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sculptor”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sculptor (IPA /ˈskʌlptɚ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,687 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sculptor, with forms such as "csulptor", "scculptor", and "scluptor". 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. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sculpture", "sculpt", "sculpted", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin sculptor, equivalent to sculpt + -or. The correct English form is sculptor, spelled S-C-U-L-P-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1A person who sculpts; an artist who produces sculpture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sculptor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sculptor, equivalent to sculpt + -or.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csulptor
- scculptor
- scluptor
- scullptor
- sculpotr
- sculpptor
- sculptorr
- sculptro
- sculpttor
- scultpor
- scupltor
- ssculptor
- suclptor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sculptor - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "sculptor", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).