syndicate
/ˈsɪndɪkət/
"syndicate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“syndicate” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,850. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,850
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
Corpus desk
Index EN-syndicate · syndicate · English
syndicate · rank #14,850 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,850
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH symmetry
Nearest frequency peer: symmetry (-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 “syndicate”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- stripe
stripe
85,155 corpus weight
- submerged
submerged
85,154 corpus weight
- symmetry
symmetry
85,152 corpus weight
- syndicate
syndicate
85,151 corpus weight
- Thornton
Thornton
85,149 corpus weight
- Tibetan
Tibetan
85,148 corpus weight
What this shows “syndicate” 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 | syndicate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɪndɪkət/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “syndicate”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around syndicate (IPA /ˈsɪndɪkət/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,850 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for syndicate, with forms such as "snydicate", "ssyndicate", and "sydnicate". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "syndicated", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Anglicized from French syndicat (“office of a syndic; board of syndics; trade union”) on the basis of -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a group formed of people of this same office), equivalent to syndic (“syndic; representative; (especially) chief… The correct English form is syndicate, spelled S-Y-N-D-I-C-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
- 2A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
- 3A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
- 4The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a body or council of syndics.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how syndicate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a gambling syndicate
The worst deed ever alleged against the early sandalwood traders was that a number of natives were suffocated in a cave at Vaté, in the New Hebrides, by the smoke from a fire built at its mouth. But this was done by order of Maafu, who, on behalf of an Australian syndicate of highly-respectable merchants and church-members, was "bossing" an expedition in…
Etymology
Anglicized from French syndicat (“office of a syndic; board of syndics; trade union”) on the basis of -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a group formed of people of this same office), equivalent to syndic (“syndic; representative; (especially) chief magistrate of Geneva”) + -at (“-ate”, forms nouns denoting rank or office), from Medieval Latin *syndicātus, from syndicus (“representative of a corporation or town; syndic”) (from Ancient Greek σύνδικος (súndikos, “advocate for a defendant”), from σύν (sún, “beside; with”) + δίκη (díkē, “judgment; justice”)) + -ātus (“-ate”). By surface analysis, syndic + -ate. Compare Italian sindacato (“syndicate; trade union; audit, control, supervision”), Occitan sendegat, Portuguese sindicato (“trade union”), Spanish sindicado, sindicato (“office of a syndic; syndicate; trade union”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- snydicate
- ssyndicate
- sydnicate
- syndciate
- synddicate
- syndiacte
- syndicaet
- syndicatte
- syndiccate
- syndictae
- synidcate
- synndicate
- syyndicate
- ysndicate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of syndicate - 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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