workload
"workload" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“workload” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,166. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,166
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The amount of work assigned to a particular worker, normally in a specified time period.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | workload |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “workload” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around workload, anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,166 among 12,113 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for workload, with forms such as "owrkload", "wokrload", and "workkload". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From work + load. The correct English form is workload, spelled W-O-R-K-L-O-A-D.
Definition
- 1The amount of work assigned to a particular worker, normally in a specified time period.
- 2The amount of work that a machine can handle or produce.
Etymology
From work + load.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- owrkload
- wokrload
- workkload
- worklaod
- worklload
- workloadd
- workloda
- workolad
- worlkoad
- worrkload
- wrokload
- wworkload
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of workload - 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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Using “workload”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-O-R-K-L-O-A-D - 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.