Sotheby's
"sotheby-s" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sotheby's” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,524. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,524
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An international auction house.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sotheby-s · Sotheby's · English
Sotheby's · rank #35,524 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,524
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sombre
Nearest frequency peer: sombre (-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 “Sotheby's”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sneaked
sneaked
64,480 corpus weight
- snip
snip
64,479 corpus weight
- sombre
sombre
64,478 corpus weight
- Sotheby's
Sotheby's
64,477 corpus weight
- sou
sou
64,476 corpus weight
- spas
spas
64,475 corpus weight
What this shows “Sotheby's” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sotheby's |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sotheby's” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Sotheby's, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,524 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An international auction house.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sotheby's, with forms such as "ostheby's", "sohteby's", and "sotehby's". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the genitive form of the surname Sotheby. The correct English form is Sotheby's, spelled S-O-T-H-E-B-Y-'-S.
Definition
- 1An international auction house.
Etymology
From the genitive form of the surname Sotheby.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ostheby's
- sohteby's
- sotehby's
- sothbey's
- sotheb'ys
- sothebby's
- sotheby'ss
- sothebys'
- sothebyy's
- sotheyb's
- sothheby's
- sottheby's
- ssotheby's
- stoheby's
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sotheby's - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).