wartime
/ˈwɔː(ɹ)taɪm/
"wartime" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wartime” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,270. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,270
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wartime · wartime · English
wartime · rank #13,270 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #13,270
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH weakest
Nearest frequency peer: weakest (+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 “wartime”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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86,733 corpus weight
- wartime
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86,731 corpus weight
- weakest
weakest
86,730 corpus weight
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86,729 corpus weight
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Winnipeg
86,728 corpus weight
- Worcester
Worcester
86,727 corpus weight
What this shows “wartime” 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 | wartime |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɔː(ɹ)taɪm/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “wartime”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around wartime (IPA /ˈwɔː(ɹ)taɪm/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,270 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for wartime, with forms such as "awrtime", "waritme", and "warrtime". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "warlike", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From war + time. The correct English form is wartime, spelled W-A-R-T-I-M-E.
Definition
- 1A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wartime appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But, she says, a wartime ban on recordings using shellac and vinyl kept the Walker version from being released.
Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances - in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation.
Etymology
From war + time.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awrtime
- waritme
- warrtime
- wartiem
- wartimme
- wartmie
- warttime
- watrime
- wratime
- wwartime
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wartime - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "wartime", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).