smokey
"smokey" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“smokey” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,500. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,500
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of smoky.
Corpus desk
Index EN-smokey · smokey · English
smokey · rank #20,500 · 9 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,500
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH simmer
Nearest frequency peer: simmer (-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 “smokey”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sig
sig
79,504 corpus weight
- silica
silica
79,503 corpus weight
- simmer
simmer
79,502 corpus weight
- smokey
smokey
79,501 corpus weight
- snag
snag
79,500 corpus weight
- snuck
snuck
79,499 corpus weight
What this shows “smokey” 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 | smokey |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “smokey”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around smokey, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,500 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative spelling of smoky.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for smokey, with forms such as "msokey", "smkoey", and "smmokey". 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. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "spoke", "stoke", "smoky", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is smokey, spelled S-M-O-K-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of smoky.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how smokey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
One day Rodolphe, who had been jugged for some slight choreographic extravagances, stumbled upon an uncle of his, one Monetti, a stove maker and smokey chimney doctor, and sargeant of the National Guard, whom he had not seen for an age.
The kind who craves an "alternative to the smokey bar scene," says the studio's Web site, in the form of an "invigorating candlelight yoga class accompanied by great live music."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- msokey
- smkoey
- smmokey
- smoeky
- smokeyy
- smokkey
- smokye
- somkey
- ssmokey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smokey - 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 "smokey", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).