younger
/ˈjʌŋɡə/
"younger" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“younger” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #2,098. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,098
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - comparative form of young: more young
Corpus desk
Index EN-younger · younger · English
younger · rank #2,098 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,098
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH yellow
Nearest frequency peer: yellow (-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 “younger”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- user
user
97,906 corpus weight
- writer
writer
97,905 corpus weight
- yellow
yellow
97,904 corpus weight
- younger
younger
97,903 corpus weight
- ancient
ancient
97,902 corpus weight
- attacks
attacks
97,901 corpus weight
What this shows “younger” 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 | younger |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈjʌŋɡə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “younger”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around younger (IPA /ˈjʌŋɡə/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,098 among 366 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "comparative form of young: more young".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for younger, with forms such as "oyunger", "yonuger", and "yougner". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Youngs", "youngest", "youngster", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is younger, spelled Y-O-U-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1comparative form of young: more young
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how younger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Our neighbors' son is younger than our daughter.
Reading this book takes me back to my younger days.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oyunger
- yonuger
- yougner
- younegr
- youngerr
- youngger
- youngre
- younnger
- yuonger
- yyounger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of younger - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "younger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).