spacious
/ˈspeɪʃ.əs/
"spacious" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spacious” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,033. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,033
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having plenty of space; roomy; capacious.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spacious · spacious · English
spacious · rank #17,033 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,033
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH solemn
Nearest frequency peer: solemn (-2 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 “spacious”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Slovenia
Slovenia
82,971 corpus weight
- solemn
solemn
82,970 corpus weight
- spacious
spacious
82,968 corpus weight
- spraying
spraying
82,966 corpus weight
- sprung
sprung
82,965 corpus weight
- Stacey
Stacey
82,964 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “spacious” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | spacious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈspeɪʃ.əs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “spacious” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around spacious (IPA /ˈspeɪʃ.əs/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,033 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for spacious, with forms such as "psacious", "sapcious", and "spaccious". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "spurious", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English spacious, from Old French spacios, from Latin spatiōsus. The correct English form is spacious, spelled S-P-A-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Having plenty of space; roomy; capacious.
- 2Large in expanse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spacious appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The apartment has a spacious bedroom.
But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.
Etymology
From Middle English spacious, from Old French spacios, from Latin spatiōsus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psacious
- sapcious
- spaccious
- spaciosu
- spaciouss
- spaciuos
- spacoius
- spaicous
- spcaious
- sppacious
- sspacious
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spacious - 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 "spacious", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "spurious". View pair
- 11 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #17,033 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.