whoops
/wʊps/
"whoops" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“whoops” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,621. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,621
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oops.
Corpus desk
Index EN-whoops · whoops · English
whoops · rank #16,621 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,621
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH whack
Nearest frequency peer: whack (-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 “whoops”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- walled
walled
83,383 corpus weight
- whack
whack
83,381 corpus weight
- whoops
whoops
83,380 corpus weight
- Wichita
Wichita
83,379 corpus weight
- Wilde
Wilde
83,378 corpus weight
- Wilmington
Wilmington
83,377 corpus weight
What this shows “whoops” 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 | whoops |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /wʊps/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “whoops”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around whoops (IPA /wʊps/), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #16,621 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Oops.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for whoops, with forms such as "hwoops", "whhoops", and "whoopps". 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. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "whos", "woods", "whores", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Onomatopoetic. The correct English form is whoops, spelled W-H-O-O-P-S.
Definition
- 1Oops.
Etymology
Onomatopoetic.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hwoops
- whhoops
- whoopps
- whoopss
- whoosp
- whopos
- whops
- wohops
- wwhoops
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of whoops - 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.
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 "whoops", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).