staid
/steɪd/
"staid" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“staid” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,507. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,507
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.
Corpus desk
Index EN-staid · staid · English
staid · rank #48,507 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,507
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH staccato
Nearest frequency peer: staccato (-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 “staid”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- spiritualism
spiritualism
51,498 corpus weight
- Srinivasan
Srinivasan
51,497 corpus weight
- sry
sry
51,496 corpus weight
- staccato
staccato
51,495 corpus weight
- staid
staid
51,494 corpus weight
- stormtrooper
stormtrooper
51,490 corpus weight
What this shows “staid” 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 | staid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /steɪd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,507 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “staid”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around staid (IPA /steɪd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,507 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for staid, with forms such as "satid", "sstaid", and "stadi". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "STD", "STI", "stay", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From an obsolete spelling of stayed, the past participle of stay, used as an adjective. The correct English form is staid, spelled S-T-A-I-D.
Definition
- 1Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.
- 2Always fixed in the same location; stationary.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how staid appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Put thy ſelfe / Into a hauiour of leſſe feare, ere wildneſſe / Vanquiſh my ſtayder Senſes.
The hours of study, the hours of recreation, the sports, the pastimes, the casualties, which in the staider years of life pass without note or comment, alike are wrapped and muffled in the one roseate haze.
Etymology
From an obsolete spelling of stayed, the past participle of stay, used as an adjective.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satid
- sstaid
- stadi
- staidd
- stiad
- sttaid
- tsaid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of staid - 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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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).