today's
"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)
- stayed
stayed
97,137 corpus weight
- suffering
suffering
97,136 corpus weight
- Sydney
Sydney
97,135 corpus weight
- today's
today's
97,134 corpus weight
- tries
tries
97,133 corpus weight
- ultimate
ultimate
97,132 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.
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 | today's |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “today's” sits in English frequency
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
- 1Relating to, or produced today.
- 2Relating to, or produced in, the current historical period.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how today's appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This is today's newspaper.
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.
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 "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
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- "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
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.