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“glade” and “glades” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #37,941
- “glade” frequency rank
- #45,399
- “glades” frequency rank
- 83340
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | glade | glades |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. | plural of glade |
Where the eye mixes glade and glades
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. glade runs 5 letters (CCVCV) against glades's 6 (CCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: glade vs glades
A purely visual mix-up. glade (/ɡleɪd/) and glades (/ɡleɪdz/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “glade” sits inside “glades”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 83340, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
glade is recorded at frequency rank #37,941, classified as anoun, pronounced /ɡleɪd/. glades is at rank #45,399, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ɡleɪdz/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 83340, this pair ranks #14,009 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of glade vs glades
Shared letters: adegl. Private to "glade": -. Private to "glades": s.
"glade" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "glades" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "glade" and "glades" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary English text, does "glade" or "glades" show up more?
Useful next steps
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "glade" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "glades" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #14,009 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "glade" and "glades" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "glades vs glazer". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #14,009 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.