abuts
/əˈbʌts/
"abuts" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“abuts” is uncommon English (frequency #68,801 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,801
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of abut
Corpus desk
Index EN-abuts · abuts · English
abuts · rank #68,801 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,801
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH abuela
Nearest frequency peer: abuela (-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 “abuts”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ableist
ableist
31,205 corpus weight
- abrogation
abrogation
31,203 corpus weight
- abstractly
abstractly
31,202 corpus weight
- abuela
abuela
31,201 corpus weight
- abuts
abuts
31,200 corpus weight
- adepts
adepts
31,197 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “abuts” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | abuts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈbʌts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “abuts” in English
Rare enough to double-check
abuts is uncommon English at frequency #68,801 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /əˈbʌts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of abut".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for abuts, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 abuts, spelled A-B-U-T-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of abut
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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