spicer
"spicer" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spicer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #28,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,736
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who seasons with spice.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spicer · spicer · English
spicer · rank #28,736 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,736
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sparing
Nearest frequency peer: sparing (-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 “spicer”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- solitaire
solitaire
71,268 corpus weight
- sparing
sparing
71,266 corpus weight
- spicer
spicer
71,265 corpus weight
- Spiegel
Spiegel
71,264 corpus weight
- sportsmansh…
sportsmanship
71,263 corpus weight
- sprinting
sprinting
71,262 corpus weight
What this shows “spicer” 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 | spicer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “spicer”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around spicer, anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,736 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for spicer, with forms such as "psicer", "sipcer", and "spcier". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "spite", "spike", "spine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English spicer, spycer, spycere, from Old French espicier (> French épicier), from Latin speciarius (“dealer in spices”), equivalent to spice + -er. The correct English form is spicer, spelled S-P-I-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who seasons with spice.
- 2That which adds spice or (figurative) excitement.
- 3A spice dealer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spicer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And finally, at end of a banquet when candied spices were served, the First Chamberlain handed the dragée box to the Spicer for an assay, and then passed it to the senior person of the Duke's Houshold present; this person presented the box to the Prince, and then returned it to the First Chamberlain, who in turn replaced it into the hands of the Spicer -…
[…] they [professional cooks] had as many as 25 helpers, such as saucerers, larders, roasters, pottagers, bakers, spicers, and fruiterers, not to mention spit turners and scullions.
Etymology
From Middle English spicer, spycer, spycere, from Old French espicier (> French épicier), from Latin speciarius (“dealer in spices”), equivalent to spice + -er.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psicer
- sipcer
- spcier
- spiccer
- spicerr
- spicre
- spiecr
- sppicer
- sspicer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spicer - 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 "spicer", 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).