stade
/steɪd/
"stade" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stade” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,387. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,387
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-stade · stade · English
stade · rank #41,387 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,387
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spyware
Nearest frequency peer: spyware (-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 “stade”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- solvency
solvency
58,618 corpus weight
- Sommer
Sommer
58,617 corpus weight
- spyware
spyware
58,615 corpus weight
- stade
stade
58,614 corpus weight
- stepmom
stepmom
58,612 corpus weight
- Stevenage
Stevenage
58,611 corpus weight
What this shows “stade” 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 | stade |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /steɪd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “stade”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around stade (IPA /steɪd/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,387 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for stade, with forms such as "satde", "sstade", and "stadde". 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, "STD", "stay", "star", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), a 600-foot racetrack, a distance of 600 Greek feet. Cognate with French stade. Doublet of stadium, stadion, and estadio. The correct English form is stade, spelled S-T-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Synonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”).
- 2A track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.
- 3A stage of progress
- 4A stage of progress
- 5A stage of progress
Etymology
From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), a 600-foot racetrack, a distance of 600 Greek feet. Cognate with French stade. Doublet of stadium, stadion, and estadio.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satde
- sstade
- stadde
- stdae
- sttade
- tsade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stade - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "stade", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).