utopia
/juːˈtəʊ.pi.ə/
"utopia" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“utopia” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,514. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,514
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
Corpus desk
Index EN-utopia · utopia · English
utopia · rank #17,514 · 7 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,514
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH vanish
Nearest frequency peer: vanish (+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 “utopia”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tumour
tumour
82,491 corpus weight
- twain
twain
82,490 corpus weight
- utopia
utopia
82,487 corpus weight
- vanish
vanish
82,486 corpus weight
- vigorously
vigorously
82,485 corpus weight
- visibly
visibly
82,484 corpus weight
What this shows “utopia” 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 | utopia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /juːˈtəʊ.pi.ə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “utopia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around utopia (IPA /juːˈtəʊ.pi.ə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,514 among 1,433 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for utopia, with forms such as "tuopia", "uotpia", and "utoipa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "utopian", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From New Latin Ūtopia, the name of a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía). Compare Eng… The correct English form is utopia, spelled U-T-O-P-I-A.
Definition
- 1A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how utopia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Errors in time must be kept in mind when analyzing myths and utopiae. Utopiae are merely projections, on a less personal and wider scale, of Cinderella’s longing for a happy future.
« Some peoples of Central or South Africa have conceived downright utopiae which enable them to build up a reality more tolerable than that in which they have to live daily ».
Etymology
From New Latin Ūtopia, the name of a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía). Compare English topos and -ia.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tuopia
- uotpia
- utoipa
- utopai
- utoppia
- utpoia
- uttopia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of utopia - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).