Travolta
"travolta" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Travolta” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #36,796. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,796
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from Italian. Most famously borne by American actor John Travolta
Corpus desk
Index EN-travolta · Travolta · English
Travolta · rank #36,796 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,796
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH trifecta
Nearest frequency peer: trifecta (+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 “Travolta”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- toothpick
toothpick
63,210 corpus weight
- topshop
topshop
63,209 corpus weight
- touting
touting
63,208 corpus weight
- Travolta
Travolta
63,205 corpus weight
- trifecta
trifecta
63,204 corpus weight
- twinkling
twinkling
63,200 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Travolta” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Travolta |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Travolta” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Travolta, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,796 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname from Italian. Most famously borne by American actor John Travolta".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Travolta, with forms such as "rtavolta", "tarvolta", and "traovlta". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Italian Travolta. The correct English form is Travolta, spelled T-R-A-V-O-L-T-A.
Definition
- 1A surname from Italian. Most famously borne by American actor John Travolta
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Travolta.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtavolta
- tarvolta
- traovlta
- travlota
- travolat
- travollta
- travoltta
- travotla
- travvolta
- trravolta
- trvaolta
- ttravolta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Travolta - 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 "Travolta", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).
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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.