abbeys
/ˈæb.iz/
"abbeys" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“abbeys” is uncommon English (frequency #68,795 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,795
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of abbey
Corpus desk
Index EN-abbeys · abbeys · English
abbeys · rank #68,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,795
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH abating
Nearest frequency peer: abating (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “abbeys”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- abating
abating
31,207 corpus weight
- abbeys
abbeys
31,206 corpus weight
- ableist
ableist
31,205 corpus weight
- abrogation
abrogation
31,203 corpus weight
- abstractly
abstractly
31,202 corpus weight
- abuela
abuela
31,201 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “abbeys” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abbeys |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæb.iz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “abbeys” in English
Rare enough to double-check
abbeys is uncommon English at frequency #68,795 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæb.iz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of abbey".
abbeys has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is abbeys, spelled A-B-B-E-Y-S.
Definition
- 1plural of abbey
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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