sleepwalking
"sleepwalking" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sleepwalking” has 19 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,920. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,920
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of walking while not conscious or aware of it, during one's sleep.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sleepwalking · sleepwalking · English
sleepwalking · rank #43,920 · 19 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,920
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Slav
Nearest frequency peer: Slav (-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 “sleepwalking”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- shoves
shoves
56,086 corpus weight
- shriver
shriver
56,084 corpus weight
- Slav
Slav
56,082 corpus weight
- sleepwalking
sleepwalking
56,081 corpus weight
- slinky
slinky
56,080 corpus weight
- smirking
smirking
56,078 corpus weight
What this shows “sleepwalking” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sleepwalking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #43,920 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sleepwalking”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around sleepwalking, anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,920 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of walking while not conscious or aware of it, during one's sleep.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for sleepwalking, with forms such as "lseepwalking", "selepwalking", and "sleepawlking". 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 sleepwalking, spelled S-L-E-E-P-W-A-L-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of walking while not conscious or aware of it, during one's sleep.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sleepwalking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The play presents a whole gamut of such causes, from irrational passions, omens, prophecies, haunted sleepwalkings, nightmares, prodigies of nature, and conjurings, to Laius's ghost in four incarnations […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lseepwalking
- selepwalking
- sleepawlking
- sleeppwalking
- sleepwakling
- sleepwalikng
- sleepwalkign
- sleepwalkingg
- sleepwalkinng
- sleepwalkking
- sleepwalknig
- sleepwallking
- sleepwlaking
- sleepwwalking
- sleewpalking
- slepewalking
- slepwalking
- slleepwalking
- ssleepwalking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sleepwalking - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sleepwalking", 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 (19 here; floor ≥5).