wholesaler
"wholesaler" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wholesaler” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,748. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,748
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers, or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wholesaler · wholesaler · English
wholesaler · rank #34,748 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,748
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH who're
Nearest frequency peer: who're (-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 “wholesaler”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- welterweight
welterweight
65,256 corpus weight
- whiteboard
whiteboard
65,255 corpus weight
- who're
who're
65,254 corpus weight
- wholesaler
wholesaler
65,253 corpus weight
- witted
witted
65,252 corpus weight
- woodside
woodside
65,251 corpus weight
What this shows “wholesaler” 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 | wholesaler |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “wholesaler”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around wholesaler, anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,748 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers, or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for wholesaler, with forms such as "hwolesaler", "whholesaler", and "whloesaler". 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, "wholesale", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From wholesale + -er. The correct English form is wholesaler, spelled W-H-O-L-E-S-A-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers, or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wholesaler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He observed that a wholesaler who supplied my grandfather with goods continued to advertise the implements of a new game, called "Sphairistike."
Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.
Etymology
From wholesale + -er.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hwolesaler
- whholesaler
- whloesaler
- whoelsaler
- wholeasler
- wholesaelr
- wholesalerr
- wholesaller
- wholesalre
- wholeslaer
- wholessaler
- whollesaler
- wholsealer
- wohlesaler
- wwholesaler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wholesaler - 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 "wholesaler", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).