smartphone
/ˈsmɑːtfəʊn/
"smartphone" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“smartphone” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,521. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,521
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-smartphone · smartphone · English
smartphone · rank #6,521 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,521
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sierra
Nearest frequency peer: sierra (-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 “smartphone”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- shadows
shadows
93,483 corpus weight
- shout
shout
93,482 corpus weight
- sierra
sierra
93,481 corpus weight
- smartphone
smartphone
93,480 corpus weight
- specified
specified
93,479 corpus weight
- spectacular
spectacular
93,478 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “smartphone” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | smartphone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsmɑːtfəʊn/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “smartphone” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around smartphone (IPA /ˈsmɑːtfəʊn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,521 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for smartphone, with forms such as "msartphone", "samrtphone", and "smarpthone". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From smart + phone; first usage in the mid-1990s. The correct English form is smartphone, spelled S-M-A-R-T-P-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.
Etymology
From smart + phone; first usage in the mid-1990s.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- msartphone
- samrtphone
- smarpthone
- smarrtphone
- smarthpone
- smartphhone
- smartphnoe
- smartphoen
- smartphonne
- smartpohne
- smartpphone
- smarttphone
- smatrphone
- smmartphone
- smratphone
- ssmartphone
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smartphone - 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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "smartphone", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- 16 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #6,521 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.