Venus
/ˈviːnəs/
"venus" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Venus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,553. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,553
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The second planet in the Solar system.
Corpus desk
Index EN-venus · Venus · English
Venus · rank #9,553 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,553
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH undergo
Nearest frequency peer: undergo (-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 “Venus”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- taxation
taxation
90,451 corpus weight
- temper
temper
90,450 corpus weight
- undergo
undergo
90,449 corpus weight
- Venus
Venus
90,448 corpus weight
- weighed
weighed
90,447 corpus weight
- Wu
Wu
90,446 corpus weight
What this shows “Venus” 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 | Venus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈviːnəs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Venus”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Venus (IPA /ˈviːnəs/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,553 among 969 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Venus, with forms such as "evnus", "vennus", and "vensu". 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, "vets", "vers", "virus", 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 Venus, from Latin Venus. The correct English form is Venus, spelled V-E-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1The second planet in the Solar system.
- 2The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality.
- 3A female given name.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Venus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: morning star, Phosphorus, Eosphorus, Lucifer; evening star, Vesper, Hesperus
Venus rises on the 1st day 1/4 to 5 a.m., and 4h. 25m. a.m. on the last day. […] She is now beginning to move northward.
Etymology
From Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- evnus
- vennus
- vensu
- venuss
- veuns
- vneus
- vvenus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Venus - 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 "Venus", 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).