wicket
/ˈwɪkɪt/
"wicket" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wicket” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,272. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,272
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wicket · wicket · English
wicket · rank #13,272 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,272
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 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 “wicket”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- wartime
wartime
86,731 corpus weight
- weakest
weakest
86,730 corpus weight
- wicket
wicket
86,729 corpus weight
- Winnipeg
Winnipeg
86,728 corpus weight
- Worcester
Worcester
86,727 corpus weight
- Zurich
Zurich
86,726 corpus weight
What this shows “wicket” 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 | wicket |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɪkɪt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “wicket”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around wicket (IPA /ˈwɪkɪt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,272 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 16 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for wicket, with forms such as "iwcket", "wciket", and "wiccket". 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. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Wilkes", "widget", "winked", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wiket, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas, diminutive of vík. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source. The correct English form is wicket, spelled W-I-C-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
- 2A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
- 3A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
- 4a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
- 5One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.
- 6A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
- 7The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.
- 8The period during which two batsmen bat together.
- 9The pitch.
- 10The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
- 11Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
- 12A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
- 13A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
- 14The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
- 15An angle bracket when used in HTML.
- 16A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wicket appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
...and one, a cool, bold fellow, whom I know well, will unlock the town gate, and—for he has various talents—hopes, through his influence with a pretty daughter of one of the wardens, to leave unbarred a certain wicket in the postern on the seaward side.
And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked / Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked; / His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay, […]
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wiket, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas, diminutive of vík. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwcket
- wciket
- wiccket
- wicekt
- wickett
- wickket
- wickte
- wikcet
- wwicket
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wicket - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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