topographical
"topographical" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“topographical” has 20 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #37,258. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,258
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - topographic
Corpus desk
Index EN-topographical · topographical · English
topographical · rank #37,258 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #37,258
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tongs
Nearest frequency peer: tongs (-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 “topographical”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- togetherness
togetherness
62,746 corpus weight
- tolerances
tolerances
62,745 corpus weight
- tongs
tongs
62,744 corpus weight
- topographic…
topographical
62,743 corpus weight
- traceable
traceable
62,742 corpus weight
- Trieste
Trieste
62,741 corpus weight
What this shows “topographical” 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 | topographical |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #37,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “topographical”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around topographical, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,258 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "topographic".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for topographical, with forms such as "otpographical", "toopgraphical", and "topgoraphical". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "typographical", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is topographical, spelled T-O-P-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1topographic
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how topographical appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Edward asked a few topographical questions, and set forth without the old man, who seemed infinitely to prefer finishing his attendance on his carnations.
Firstly, Japan is in such a topographical condition and technical restriction as to make it impossible to adopt the use of machinery upon such an extensive scale as is emphasized by Marxist agriculturism.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otpographical
- toopgraphical
- topgoraphical
- topogarphical
- topoggraphical
- topograhpical
- topographcial
- topographhical
- topographiacl
- topographicall
- topographiccal
- topographicla
- topograpihcal
- topograpphical
- topogrpahical
- topogrraphical
- toporgaphical
- toppographical
- tpoographical
- ttopographical
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of topographical - 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 "topographical", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).