venom
/ˈvɛnəm/
"venom" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“venom” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,635. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,635
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An animal toxin intended for defensive or offensive use; a biological poison delivered by bite, sting, etc., to protect an animal or to kill its prey.
Corpus desk
Index EN-venom · venom · English
venom · rank #13,635 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,635
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH victorious
Nearest frequency peer: victorious (+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 “venom”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- undo
undo
86,370 corpus weight
- unnamed
unnamed
86,369 corpus weight
- upsetting
upsetting
86,368 corpus weight
- venom
venom
86,366 corpus weight
- victorious
victorious
86,365 corpus weight
- vines
vines
86,364 corpus weight
What this shows “venom” 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 | venom |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɛnəm/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “venom”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around venom (IPA /ˈvɛnəm/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,635 among 969 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for venom, with forms such as "evnom", "venmo", and "vennom". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "vom", "vent", "veto", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English venym, from Old French venim, from Vulgar Latin *venīmen, from Early Medieval Latin venīnum, from Classical Latin venēnum (“drug; poison; a charm”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”). Doublet of venin and ve… The correct English form is venom, spelled V-E-N-O-M.
Definition
- 1An animal toxin intended for defensive or offensive use; a biological poison delivered by bite, sting, etc., to protect an animal or to kill its prey.
- 2Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice; vitriol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how venom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] There may be in the cup / A spider steep’d, and one may drink, depart, / And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge / Is not infected...
And from the Boughs brush off the evil dew, / And heal the harms of thwarting thunder blew, / Or what the cross dire-looking Planet smites, / Or hurtfull Worm with canker’d venom bites […]
Etymology
From Middle English venym, from Old French venim, from Vulgar Latin *venīmen, from Early Medieval Latin venīnum, from Classical Latin venēnum (“drug; poison; a charm”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”). Doublet of venin and venene.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evnom
- venmo
- vennom
- venomm
- veonm
- vneom
- vvenom
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of venom - 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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