ThaisvsthatsTell them apart

Which to use

“Thais” and “thats” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#42,943
“Thais” frequency rank
#2,922
“thats” frequency rank
45865
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Thais thats
Definition plural of Thai plural of that

Letter map: Thais vs thats

Shared letters muted; letters that set Thais and thats apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. Thais (CCVVC) and thats (CCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

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Thais
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thats

Corpus notes: Thais and thats

Thais and thats are indexed as a confusable English pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by a single letter - i in “Thais” becomes t in “thats”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45865, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Thais is recorded at frequency rank #42,943, classified as anoun. thats is at rank #2,922, tagged as anoun.

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 45865, this pair ranks #217,155 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Thais vs thats

Shared letters: ahst. Private to "Thais": i. Private to "thats": -.

"Thais" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC  ·  "thats" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Thais ← htais · tahis · thaiss · thasi · thhais · thias · tthais
  • thats ← htats · tahts · thast · thatss · thatts · thhats · thtas · tthats

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Thais" and "thats" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by a single letter - i in “Thais” becomes t in “thats”, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
In ordinary English text, does "Thais" or "thats" show up more?
"thats" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,922 in our English list, against #42,943 for "Thais". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Thais" and "thats".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Thais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "thats" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #217,155 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Thais" and "thats" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Thais vs theism". 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 #217,155 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list