abbots
/ˈæb.əts/
"abbots" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“abbots” is an uncommon English word, ranked #57,195 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #57,195
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of abbot
| 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) |
Where “abbots” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for abbots is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈæb.əts/. Corpus data places it at rank #57,195 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “abbots”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-B-B-O-T-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈæb.əts/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.