spokesman
"spokesman" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spokesman” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,820. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,820
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who speaks as the voice of another person or a group of people.
Corpus desk
Index EN-spokesman · spokesman · English
spokesman · rank #9,820 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,820
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spelled
Nearest frequency peer: spelled (-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 “spokesman”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- skins
skins
90,184 corpus weight
- spelled
spelled
90,182 corpus weight
- spokesman
spokesman
90,181 corpus weight
- Springfield
Springfield
90,180 corpus weight
- stained
stained
90,179 corpus weight
- stall
stall
90,178 corpus weight
What this shows “spokesman” 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 | spokesman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “spokesman”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around spokesman, anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,820 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "One who speaks as the voice of another person or a group of people.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for spokesman, with forms such as "psokesman", "sopkesman", and "spkoesman". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sportsman", "spokeswoman", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From spoke (“past participle of speak”) + -s- + man. The correct English form is spokesman, spelled S-P-O-K-E-S-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1One who speaks as the voice of another person or a group of people.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how spokesman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
One study of popular escapistic communications indicates that the recipients regarded the heroes and spokesmen as "trustworthy models and guides."
Libyan war planes on Sunday sank one ship and attacked a second vessel near the eastern city of Benghazi, military spokesmen for the country's internationally recognized government said on Monday.
Etymology
From spoke (“past participle of speak”) + -s- + man.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psokesman
- sopkesman
- spkoesman
- spoeksman
- spokemsan
- spokesamn
- spokesmann
- spokesmman
- spokesmna
- spokessman
- spokkesman
- spokseman
- sppokesman
- sspokesman
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spokesman - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "spokesman", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).