Wicca
/ˈwɪkə/
"wicca" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Wicca” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,421. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,421
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A neopagan religion that was first popularized by books written in 1949, 1954, and 1959 by the Englishman Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of a horned male god and a moon goddess, the observan...
Corpus desk
Index EN-wicca · Wicca · English
Wicca · rank #47,421 · 5 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,421
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Whitcomb
Nearest frequency peer: Whitcomb (-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 “Wicca”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Westbury
Westbury
52,583 corpus weight
- whimsy
whimsy
52,582 corpus weight
- Whitcomb
Whitcomb
52,581 corpus weight
- Wicca
Wicca
52,580 corpus weight
- Willett
Willett
52,579 corpus weight
- wilted
wilted
52,578 corpus weight
What this shows “Wicca” 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 | Wicca |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɪkə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Wicca”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Wicca (IPA /ˈwɪkə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #47,421 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A neopagan religion that was first popularized by books written in 1949, 1954, and 1959 by the Englishman Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of a horned male god and a moon goddess, the observan...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Wicca, with forms such as "iwcca", "wcica", and "wica". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "wick", "wich", "witch", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: A twentieth-century borrowing of Old English wiċċa (“male witch”) (from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“sorcerer”)) with a spelling pronunciation. The modern use of the term was introduced first as Wica, mentioned briefly in the tenth chapter of Gerald Gardner… The correct English form is Wicca, spelled W-I-C-C-A.
Definition
- 1A neopagan religion that was first popularized by books written in 1949, 1954, and 1959 by the Englishman Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of a horned male god and a moon goddess, the observance of eight Sabbats, and the performance of various rituals.
Etymology
A twentieth-century borrowing of Old English wiċċa (“male witch”) (from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“sorcerer”)) with a spelling pronunciation. The modern use of the term was introduced first as Wica, mentioned briefly in the tenth chapter of Gerald Gardner's book Witchcraft Today (1954), as a collective noun ("the Wica"), allegedly used as a self-designation by practitioners of witchcraft. The spelling Wicca, again as a collective noun, was introduced and popularized by Gerald Gardner's later book, The Meaning of Witchcraft (1959).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwcca
- wcica
- wica
- wicac
- wwicca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Wicca - 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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