welterweight

Name: welterweight, English Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“welterweight” has 19 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,745. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,745
frequency rank, English: 1,759
“W” headwords: 19
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of welter-weight.

Corpus desk

Index EN-welterweight · welterweight · English

welterweight · rank #34,745 · 19 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #34,745
LEN-MEGA 12 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 19 variants
BOOK-MID 1,759
PHOTO-FINISH wedlock

Nearest frequency peer: wedlock (-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.

wanton

65,258
wedlock

65,257
welterweight

65,256
whiteboard

65,255
who're

65,254
wholesaler

65,253

What this shows “welterweight” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Key facts for welterweight
Property	Value
Headword	welterweight
Language	English
Part of speech	Noun
Letters	12
Frequency rank	#34,745
Misspellings tracked	19
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “welterweight”

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).welterweightlands here:

#34,745

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Same rarity band neighbours include “wedlock” (#34,744), “whiteboard” (#34,746), “wanton” (#34,743). Among 1,759 “W” headwords, “welterweight” is #34,745. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 19 spelling variants around welterweight, anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,745 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative spelling of welter-weight.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for welterweight, with forms such as "ewlterweight", "weletrweight", and "wellterweight". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is welterweight, spelled W-E-L-T-E-R-W-E-I-G-H-T.

Definition

1
Alternative spelling of welter-weight.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how welterweight appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

Undoubtedly, his record versus welterweights (147 pounds) is better than against full-blown middleweights (160 pounds). Being a tweener, Graziano probably would have campaigned as a junior middleweight (154 pounds) if he fought today.
Safety and fairness in female sport was one of the most prominent topics at this summer’s Olympic Games, where boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting took gold in the women’s welterweight and featherweight categories respectively.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ewlterweight
weletrweight
wellterweight
welterewight
welterrweight
welterwegiht
welterweigght
welterweighht
welterweightt
welterweigth
welterweihgt
welterwieght
welterwweight
weltewreight
weltreweight
weltterweight
wetlerweight
wleterweight
wwelterweight

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of welterweight - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "welterweight"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "welterweight"?

"welterweight" is spelled W-E-L-T-E-R-W-E-I-G-H-T.

What does "welterweight" mean?

As a noun, "welterweight" means: Alternative spelling of welter-weight.

What are common misspellings of "welterweight"?

Common misspellings include "ewlterweight", "weletrweight", "wellterweight", "welterewight", "welterrweight". The correct spelling is "welterweight".

What language does "welterweight" come from?

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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "welterweight", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).

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