sellers
/ˈsɛləz/
"sellers" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sellers” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #9,094 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,094
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of seller
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 | sellers |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɛləz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,094 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sellers” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for sellers is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈsɛləz/. Corpus data places it at rank #9,094 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural of seller".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for sellers, with forms such as "esllers", "selelrs", and "selers". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "sells", "settlers", "seller", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is sellers, spelled S-E-L-L-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1plural of seller
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: esllers,selelrs,selers,sellerrs,sellerss,sellesr,sellres,slelers,ssellers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sellers - 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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Using “sellers”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-E-L-L-E-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈsɛləz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sells” - see the side-by-side comparison. sellers vs sells
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.