shortsighted
"shortsighted" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shortsighted” has 20 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,775. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,775
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative spelling of short-sighted.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shortsighted · shortsighted · English
shortsighted · rank #46,775 · 20 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,775
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH shorting
Nearest frequency peer: shorting (-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 “shortsighted”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Shinjuku
Shinjuku
53,229 corpus weight
- shorting
shorting
53,227 corpus weight
- shortsighted
shortsighted
53,226 corpus weight
- shunning
shunning
53,225 corpus weight
- Silverstein
Silverstein
53,224 corpus weight
- Simona
Simona
53,223 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shortsighted” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shortsighted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #46,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shortsighted” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around shortsighted, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,775 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative spelling of short-sighted.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for shortsighted, with forms such as "hsortsighted", "shhortsighted", and "shorrtsighted". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is shortsighted, spelled S-H-O-R-T-S-I-G-H-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of short-sighted.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsortsighted
- shhortsighted
- shorrtsighted
- shorstighted
- shortisghted
- shortsgihted
- shortsigghted
- shortsighetd
- shortsighhted
- shortsightde
- shortsightedd
- shortsightted
- shortsigthed
- shortsihgted
- shortssighted
- shorttsighted
- shotrsighted
- shrotsighted
- sohrtsighted
- sshortsighted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shortsighted - 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 "shortsighted", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 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.