talkie
/ˈtɔːki/
"talkie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“talkie” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #36,368. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,368
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.
Corpus desk
Index EN-talkie · talkie · English
talkie · rank #36,368 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,368
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Takahashi
Nearest frequency peer: Takahashi (-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 “talkie”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Sylvie
Sylvie
63,636 corpus weight
- syntactic
syntactic
63,635 corpus weight
- Takahashi
Takahashi
63,634 corpus weight
- talkie
talkie
63,633 corpus weight
- Tana
Tana
63,632 corpus weight
- thang
thang
63,631 corpus weight
What this shows “talkie” 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 | talkie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɔːki/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “talkie”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around talkie (IPA /ˈtɔːki/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,368 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for talkie, with forms such as "atlkie", "taklie", and "talike". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "talks", "talking", "Tolkien", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie. The correct English form is talkie, spelled T-A-L-K-I-E.
Definition
- 1A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.
- 2A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how talkie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
“We have just returned from the talkies.” “They should never have added sound. There was pop music and people talking all the way through it.”
Etymology
Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atlkie
- taklie
- talike
- talkei
- talkkie
- tallkie
- tlakie
- ttalkie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of talkie - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "talkie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).