today's

adj

"today-s" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“today's” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #2,867. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,867
frequency rank, English
3,151
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relating to, or produced today.

Corpus desk

Index EN-today-s · today's · English

today's · rank #2,867 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,867
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,151
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sydney

Nearest frequency peer: Sydney (-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 “today's”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “today's” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

today's vs todays
86% similar
today's vs today
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for today's
PropertyValue
Headwordtoday's
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,867
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “today's” sits in English frequency

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).today'slands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Same rarity band neighbours include “Sydney” (#2,866), “tries” (#2,868), “suffering” (#2,865). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around today's, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,867 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for today's, with forms such as "otday's", "tdoay's", and "toady's". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "todays", "today", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is today's, spelled T-O-D-A-Y-'-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relating to, or produced today.
  2. 2
    Relating to, or produced in, the current historical period.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how today's appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. This is today's newspaper.
  2. A modern-day warrior / Mean, mean stride / Today's Tom Sawyer / Mean, mean pride

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otday's
  • tdoay's
  • toady's
  • toda'ys
  • today'ss
  • todays'
  • todayy's
  • todday's
  • todya's
  • ttoday's

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of today's - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

otday's2tdoay's2toady's2toda'ys2today'ss1todays'2todayy's1todday's1
Edit distance from "today's"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "today's"?
"today's" is spelled T-O-D-A-Y-'-S.
What does "today's" mean?
As an adjective, "today's" means: Relating to, or produced today.
What words are commonly confused with "today's"?
"today's" is commonly confused with "todays", "today". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "today's" come from?
"today's" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "today's", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

What to do next

You've looked up "today's". Here's where to go from here.

  • "today's" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "todays". View pair
  • 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
  • Usage frequency rank #2,867 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
  • Browse more English words in the "T" letter cohort. T–Z browse
  • PlainSpell rotates a curated Word of the Day from the English corpus, a passive way to discover vocabulary. Word of the Day

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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list