warlock
/ˈwɔː.lɒk/
"warlock" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“warlock” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,515. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,515
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male magic-user; a male witch; a wizard.
Corpus desk
Index EN-warlock · warlock · English
warlock · rank #29,515 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,515
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH waterhouse
Nearest frequency peer: waterhouse (+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 “warlock”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- uzi
uzi
70,489 corpus weight
- vert
vert
70,488 corpus weight
- warlock
warlock
70,486 corpus weight
- waterhouse
waterhouse
70,485 corpus weight
- wayside
wayside
70,484 corpus weight
- whig
whig
70,483 corpus weight
What this shows “warlock” 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 | warlock |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɔː.lɒk/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “warlock”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around warlock (IPA /ˈwɔː.lɒk/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,515 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for warlock, with forms such as "awrlock", "walrock", and "warlcok". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Warwick", "warlord", "wedlock", 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 warloghe, warlowe, warloȝe, from Old English wǣrloga (“traitor, deceiver”, literally “truce-breaker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wārulogō (“liar”), equivalent to Old English wǣr (“covenant, truce, pact, promise”) (from Proto-Indo-Europea… The correct English form is warlock, spelled W-A-R-L-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1A male magic-user; a male witch; a wizard.
- 2A magic-user (regardless of gender).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how warlock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was himself a warlock, or wizard, which they knew by his taking the witch's part.
It was the day of warlocks and apparitions, now happily driven out by the zeal of the General Assembly.
Etymology
From Middle English warloghe, warlowe, warloȝe, from Old English wǣrloga (“traitor, deceiver”, literally “truce-breaker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wārulogō (“liar”), equivalent to Old English wǣr (“covenant, truce, pact, promise”) (from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁- (“true”); whence also Latin vērus) + loga (“liar”), from Proto-Germanic *lugô, related to Old English lēogan (whence English lie). The hard -ck ending originated in Scottish and Northern English, like the sense "male magic-user" (from the notion that such men were in league with the Devil and had thus broken their baptismal vows / betrayed Christianity). Cognate with Old Saxon wārlogo (“liar, unfaithful or insidious one”). A few writers alternatively propose a derivation from Old Norse varðlokkur (“incantations, charms”, literally “ward songs”), but as the OED notes, this is implausible due to the extreme rarity of the Norse word, the semantic difference, and because forms without hard -k, which are consistent with the Old English etymology (“traitor”), are attested earlier than forms with -k, and forms with -ð- are not attested.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awrlock
- walrock
- warlcok
- warllock
- warlocck
- warlockk
- warlokc
- warolck
- warrlock
- wralock
- wwarlock
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of warlock - 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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