sprang
/ˈspɹæŋ/
"sprang" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sprang” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,913. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,913
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past of spring
Corpus desk
Index EN-sprang · sprang · English
sprang · rank #24,913 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,913
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spotless
Nearest frequency peer: spotless (-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 “sprang”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Spielberg
Spielberg
75,091 corpus weight
- spokeswoman
spokeswoman
75,090 corpus weight
- spotless
spotless
75,089 corpus weight
- sprang
sprang
75,088 corpus weight
- ssh
ssh
75,087 corpus weight
- stinky
stinky
75,085 corpus weight
What this shows “sprang” 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 | sprang |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈspɹæŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sprang”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sprang (IPA /ˈspɹæŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,913 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past of spring".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sprang, with forms such as "psrang", "sparng", and "spprang". 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, "spray", "strong", "spring", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is sprang, spelled S-P-R-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1simple past of spring
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psrang
- sparng
- spprang
- spragn
- sprangg
- spranng
- sprnag
- sprrang
- srpang
- ssprang
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sprang - 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 "sprang", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).