vitamin
/ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/
"vitamin" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vitamin” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,081. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,081
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or...
Corpus desk
Index EN-vitamin · vitamin · English
vitamin · rank #7,081 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,081
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH visitor
Nearest frequency peer: visitor (-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 “vitamin”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- upside
upside
92,923 corpus weight
- urged
urged
92,922 corpus weight
- visitor
visitor
92,921 corpus weight
- vitamin
vitamin
92,920 corpus weight
- void
void
92,919 corpus weight
- voluntary
voluntary
92,918 corpus weight
What this shows “vitamin” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vitamin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “vitamin”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around vitamin (IPA /ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,081 among 969 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for vitamin, with forms such as "ivtamin", "viatmin", and "vitaimn". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: 1920, originally vitamine (1912), from Latin vīta (“life”) (see vital) + amine (see amino acids). Vitamine coined by Polish biochemist Casimir Funk after the initial discovery of aberic acid (thiamine), when it was thought that all such nutrients would be a… The correct English form is vitamin, spelled V-I-T-A-M-I-N.
Definition
- 1Any of a specific group of organic compounds essential in small quantities for healthy human growth, metabolism, development, and body function; found in minute amounts in plant and animal foods or sometimes produced synthetically; deficiencies of specific vitamins produce specific disorders.
- 2preceding a word or its initial letter, to imply that the referent benefits health or wellness
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vitamin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a food rich in vitamins
Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life
Etymology
1920, originally vitamine (1912), from Latin vīta (“life”) (see vital) + amine (see amino acids). Vitamine coined by Polish biochemist Casimir Funk after the initial discovery of aberic acid (thiamine), when it was thought that all such nutrients would be amines. The term had become ubiquitous by the time it was discovered that vitamin C, among others, had no amine component. In 1920, British biochemist Jack Drummond proposed that the final -e be dropped to deemphasize the amine reference. The ending -in was acceptable because it was used for natural substances of undefined composition. Drummond also introduced the lettering system of nomenclature (Vitamin A, B, C, etc.) at this same time.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ivtamin
- viatmin
- vitaimn
- vitaminn
- vitammin
- vitamni
- vitmain
- vittamin
- vtiamin
- vvitamin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vitamin - 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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