Spartacus
/ˈspɑːtəkəs/
"spartacus" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Spartacus” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,949
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Thracian name, notably borne by a gladiator who was one of the slave leaders in a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spartacus · Spartacus · English
Spartacus · rank #35,949 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,949
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spacetime
Nearest frequency peer: spacetime (-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 “Spartacus”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- spacer
spacer
64,054 corpus weight
- spacetime
spacetime
64,053 corpus weight
- Spartacus
Spartacus
64,052 corpus weight
- spasm
spasm
64,051 corpus weight
- spearhead
spearhead
64,050 corpus weight
- specialise
specialise
64,049 corpus weight
What this shows “Spartacus” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spartacus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈspɑːtəkəs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #35,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Spartacus”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Spartacus (IPA /ˈspɑːtəkəs/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,949 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A Thracian name, notably borne by a gladiator who was one of the slave leaders in a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Spartacus, with forms such as "psartacus", "saprtacus", and "sparatcus". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin Spartacus, from Thracian *Spartakos. The correct English form is Spartacus, spelled S-P-A-R-T-A-C-U-S.
Definition
- 1A Thracian name, notably borne by a gladiator who was one of the slave leaders in a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Spartacus, from Thracian *Spartakos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psartacus
- saprtacus
- sparatcus
- sparrtacus
- spartaccus
- spartacsu
- spartacuss
- spartaucs
- spartcaus
- sparttacus
- spatracus
- sppartacus
- spratacus
- sspartacus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Spartacus - 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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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).