synth
/sɪnθ/
"synth" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“synth” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,442. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,442
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A musical synthesizer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-synth · synth · English
synth · rank #18,442 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,442
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sweeney
Nearest frequency peer: Sweeney (-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 “synth”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- stumbling
stumbling
81,563 corpus weight
- Sweeney
Sweeney
81,560 corpus weight
- synth
synth
81,559 corpus weight
- tackled
tackled
81,558 corpus weight
- takeoff
takeoff
81,557 corpus weight
- tammy
tammy
81,556 corpus weight
What this shows “synth” 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 | synth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɪnθ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “synth”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around synth (IPA /sɪnθ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,442 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A musical synthesizer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for synth, with forms such as "snyth", "ssynth", and "synht". 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, "syn", "sth", "sent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of synthesizer. The correct English form is synth, spelled S-Y-N-T-H.
Definition
- 1A musical synthesizer.
Etymology
Clipping of synthesizer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- snyth
- ssynth
- synht
- synnth
- synthh
- syntth
- sytnh
- syynth
- ysnth
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of synth - 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 "synth", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).