Which to use
“place” and “places” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #187
- “place” frequency rank
- #998
- “places” frequency rank
- 1185
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | place | places |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | An area; somewhere within an area. | plural of place |
Where the eye mixes place and places
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. place (/pleɪs/) and places (/ˈpleɪsɪz/) 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) - “place” sits inside “places”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1185, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
place is recorded at frequency rank #187, classified as anoun, pronounced /pleɪs/. places is at rank #998, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈpleɪsɪz/.
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 1185, this pair ranks #527,921 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of place vs places
Shared letters: acelp. Private to "place": -. Private to "places": s.
"place" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "places" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVC