style
/staɪl/
"style" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“style” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #818. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #818
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
Corpus desk
Index EN-style · style · English
style · rank #818 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #818
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH send
Nearest frequency peer: send (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “style”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- property
property
99,186 corpus weight
- quality
quality
99,185 corpus weight
- send
send
99,184 corpus weight
- style
style
99,183 corpus weight
- u
u
99,182 corpus weight
- vote
vote
99,181 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “style” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | style |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /staɪl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #818 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “style” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around style (IPA /staɪl/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #818 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 15 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for style, with forms such as "sstyle", "stlye", and "sttyle". 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, "Styx", "styled", "stylus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: The noun is derived from Middle English stile, stel, stele, stiel, stiele, stil, still, stille, styele, style, styill, styll, styyl (“writing tool, stylus; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression, particularly one regarded as high quality; … The correct English form is style, spelled S-T-Y-L-E.
Definition
- 1Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
- 2Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
- 3Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
- 4Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
- 5Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
- 6Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
- 7Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.
- 8A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.
- 9A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.
- 10A particular manner of expression in writing or speech, especially one regarded as good.
- 11A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.
- 12A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.
- 13A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.
- 14A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.
- 15A particular manner of creating, doing, or presenting something, especially a work of architecture or art.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how style appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thus while his Thoughts the lingring Day beguile, / To gentle Arcite let us turn our Style; [...]
From Job xix. 24. it appears to have been usual in his day, to write or engrave upon Plates of Lead, which might easily be done with a Pen, or Graver, or Style of Iron, or other hard metal.
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English stile, stel, stele, stiel, stiele, stil, still, stille, styele, style, styill, styll, styyl (“writing tool, stylus; piece of written work; characteristic mode of expression, particularly one regarded as high quality; demeanour, manner, way of life; person's designation or title; stem of a plant; period of time”) (compare semantic development to по́черк (póčerk, “handwriting, style”)), from Old French style, estile, stil, stile (modern French style), or from Medieval Latin stylus, both from Latin stilus (“pointed instrument, pale, spike, stake; writing tool, stylus; act of setting down in writing, composition; characteristic mode of expression, style; stem of a plant”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp; to pierce, prick, puncture, stab; to goad”). Doublet of stylus. The English word is cognate with Catalan estil (“engraving tool, stylus; gnomon; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace”), German Stiel (“handle; stalk”), Italian stilo (“needle, stylus; fountain pen; beam; gnomon; part of pistil, style”), Occitan estil, Portuguese estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style”), Spanish estilo (“writing tool, stylus; manner of doing something, style; fashionable skill, grace; part of pistil, style”). The verb is derived from the noun.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sstyle
- stlye
- sttyle
- styel
- stylle
- styyle
- sytle
- tsyle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of style - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "style" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Styx". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #818 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.