Winthrop
"winthrop" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Winthrop” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,702. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,702
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of a number of places in England, the United States of America, and elsewhere.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Winthrop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Winthrop” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Winthrop, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,702 among 12,113 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Winthrop, with forms such as "iwnthrop", "winhtrop", and "winnthrop". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From wines (“friend's”) + þorp (“village”). The correct English form is Winthrop, spelled W-I-N-T-H-R-O-P.
Definition
- 1Any of a number of places in England, the United States of America, and elsewhere.
- 2Any of a number of places in England, the United States of America, and elsewhere.
- 3Any of a number of places in England, the United States of America, and elsewhere.
- 4Any of a number of places in England, the United States of America, and elsewhere.
- 5Any of a number of places in England, the United States of America, and elsewhere.
- 6Any of a number of places in England, the United States of America, and elsewhere.
- 7Any of a number of places in England, the United States of America, and elsewhere.
- 8Any of a number of places in England, the United States of America, and elsewhere.
- 9A habitational surname from Old English from the English places.
Etymology
From wines (“friend's”) + þorp (“village”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwnthrop
- winhtrop
- winnthrop
- winthhrop
- winthorp
- winthropp
- winthrpo
- winthrrop
- wintrhop
- wintthrop
- witnhrop
- wnithrop
- wwinthrop
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Winthrop - 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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Using “Winthrop”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-I-N-T-H-R-O-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.