sportswear

noun

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"sportswear" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“sportswear” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,030. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,030
frequency rank, English
6,566
“S” headwords
16
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Casual clothing that is comfortable to wear when exercising or partaking in sport; activewear.

Corpus desk

Index EN-sportswear · sportswear · English

sportswear · rank #33,030 · 16 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,030
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,566
  • PHOTO-FINISH spieth

Nearest frequency peer: spieth (-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 “sportswear”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “sportswear” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sportswear
PropertyValue
Headwordsportswear
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#33,030
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sportswear”

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).sportswearlands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Same rarity band neighbours include “spieth” (#33,029), “squeak” (#33,031), “spew” (#33,028). Among 6,566 “S” headwords, “sportswear” is #33,030. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around sportswear, anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,030 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Casual clothing that is comfortable to wear when exercising or partaking in sport; activewear.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for sportswear, with forms such as "psortswear", "soprtswear", and "sporrtswear". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Etymologically, the entry records: From sports + -wear. The correct English form is sportswear, spelled S-P-O-R-T-S-W-E-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Casual clothing that is comfortable to wear when exercising or partaking in sport; activewear.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sportswear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Yohji Yamamoto's strength was to stick with the sportswear that has inspired him since he teamed up with Adidas to create the imaginative pin-striped or painted-denim footwear that walked his grass-turf runway.

Etymology

From sports + -wear.

This word in other languages

Sportbekleidung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • psortswear
  • soprtswear
  • sporrtswear
  • sporstwear
  • sportsewar
  • sportsswear
  • sportswaer
  • sportswearr
  • sportswera
  • sportswwear
  • sporttswear
  • sportwsear
  • spotrswear
  • spportswear
  • sprotswear
  • ssportswear

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sportswear - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

psortswear2soprtswear2sporrtswear1sporstwear2sportsewar2sportsswear1sportswaer2sportswearr1
Edit distance from "sportswear"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sportswear"?
"sportswear" is spelled S-P-O-R-T-S-W-E-A-R.
What does "sportswear" mean?
As a noun, "sportswear" means: Casual clothing that is comfortable to wear when exercising or partaking in sport; activewear.
What are common misspellings of "sportswear"?
Common misspellings include "psortswear", "soprtswear", "sporrtswear", "sporstwear", "sportsewar". The correct spelling is "sportswear".
What is the origin of the word "sportswear"?
From sports + -wear. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sportswear", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list