soreness
"soreness" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“soreness” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,097. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,097
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-soreness · soreness · English
soreness · rank #29,097 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,097
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Somerville
Nearest frequency peer: Somerville (-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 “soreness”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- soleil
soleil
70,907 corpus weight
- soloist
soloist
70,906 corpus weight
- Somerville
Somerville
70,905 corpus weight
- soreness
soreness
70,904 corpus weight
- sowing
sowing
70,902 corpus weight
- sphinx
sphinx
70,901 corpus weight
What this shows “soreness” 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 | soreness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “soreness”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around soreness, anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,097 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for soreness, with forms such as "osreness", "soerness", and "soreenss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "softness", "scoreless", "shortness", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English sornes, sornesse, sarnesse, from Old English sārnes (“bodily pain; mental pain, affliction, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairanassī, equivalent to sore + -ness. Cognate with Scots sairness (“soreness”), Old Frisian sērnisse, sērnes… The correct English form is soreness, spelled S-O-R-E-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soreness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The salve made the soreness go away, but with the aches gone I suddenly noticed my other pains.
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness…
Etymology
From Middle English sornes, sornesse, sarnesse, from Old English sārnes (“bodily pain; mental pain, affliction, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairanassī, equivalent to sore + -ness. Cognate with Scots sairness (“soreness”), Old Frisian sērnisse, sērnesse (“injury, lesion”), Middle Low German sêrnisse, sêrenisse (“wounding, injury, distress, need”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osreness
- soerness
- soreenss
- sorenes
- sorenness
- sorenses
- sorneess
- sorreness
- sroeness
- ssoreness
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of soreness - 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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