aces
/ˈeɪ.sɪz/
"aces" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aces” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,284) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,284
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 1
- tracked misspelling
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of ace
Corpus desk
Index EN-aces · aces · English
aces · rank #17,284 · 1 variant · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,284
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 1 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Abrams
Nearest frequency peer: Abrams (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “aces”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Zionist
Zionist
82,721 corpus weight
- Abrams
Abrams
82,718 corpus weight
- aces
aces
82,717 corpus weight
- aft
aft
82,716 corpus weight
- Albion
Albion
82,715 corpus weight
- anesthesia
anesthesia
82,714 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “aces” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aces |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈeɪ.sɪz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 1 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “aces”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aces is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "AE", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈeɪ.sɪz/. Frequency #17,284 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "plural of ace".
Our generated misspelling index lists 1 likely wrong-spelling variant for aces, including "aecs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "AE", "are", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is aces, spelled A-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of ace
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aecs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aces - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).