abbots
/ˈæb.əts/
"abbots" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“abbots” is uncommon English (frequency #57,195 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,195
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of abbot
Corpus desk
Index EN-abbots · abbots · English
abbots · rank #57,195 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,195
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Abramovich
Nearest frequency peer: Abramovich (+2 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 “abbots”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Zoltan
Zoltan
42,812 corpus weight
- zookeeper
zookeeper
42,811 corpus weight
- abbots
abbots
42,806 corpus weight
- Abramovich
Abramovich
42,804 corpus weight
- Absolutes
Absolutes
42,803 corpus weight
- Acheson
Acheson
42,802 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “abbots” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abbots |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæb.əts/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “abbots” in English
Rare enough to double-check
abbots is uncommon English at frequency #57,195 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæb.əts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of abbot".
abbots doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is abbots, spelled A-B-B-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of abbot
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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