twice
/twaɪs/
"twice" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“twice” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,546. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,546
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Two times.
Corpus desk
Index EN-twice · twice · English
twice · rank #1,546 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,546
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH traditional
Nearest frequency peer: traditional (-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 “twice”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- structure
structure
98,458 corpus weight
- Thomas
Thomas
98,457 corpus weight
- traditional
traditional
98,456 corpus weight
- twice
twice
98,455 corpus weight
- wind
wind
98,454 corpus weight
- worry
worry
98,453 corpus weight
What this shows “twice” 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 | twice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /twaɪs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “twice”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around twice (IPA /twaɪs/), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #1,546 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for twice, with forms such as "tiwce", "ttwice", and "twcie". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "twin", "twig", "twit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From earlier twise, from Middle English twies, twiȝes, from Old English twīġes (“twice”), from twīwa, twīġa ("twice"; whence Middle English twie (“twice”)) + -es (adverbial genitive ending). Related to Saterland Frisian twäie (“twice”), Middle Low German tw… The correct English form is twice, spelled T-W-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Two times.
- 2Doubled in quantity, intensity, or degree.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how twice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You should brush your teeth twice a day.
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. (1947, Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitu…
Etymology
From earlier twise, from Middle English twies, twiȝes, from Old English twīġes (“twice”), from twīwa, twīġa ("twice"; whence Middle English twie (“twice”)) + -es (adverbial genitive ending). Related to Saterland Frisian twäie (“twice”), Middle Low German twiges, twies (“twice”), Middle High German zwies (“twice”). Equivalent to twi- (“(in) two; both”) + -ce. Similarly constructed to the prefixes bis- and dis-, borrowed from Indo-European cognates.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tiwce
- ttwice
- twcie
- twicce
- twiec
- twwice
- wtice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of twice - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "twice", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).