Interactive Tool
Spelling Challenge
Read each definition and pick the correctly-spelled word. The three wrong options are real misspellings drawn from the PlainSpell corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA); ten common words per round, best score saved on this device.
- 545,755
- English words
- 374,588
- misspelling variants
- 10
- words per round
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Definitions and spellings from PlainSpell's word data. Each correct answer is a real headword you can look up in full.
The data behind this quiz
Every distractor is a real recorded misspelling. Here is how many misspelling variants English words attract across the whole corpus, the right-hand tail is where the hardest-to-spell words live.
English words by misspelling-variant count
35,272 words by misspelling variants; the ranking above is drawn from the right-hand tail
misspelling variants →
What this showsMost words attract a handful of common misspellings; the affix-heavy outliers in the long tail are the ones this quiz, and standardized spelling tests, draw from.