aches
/eɪks/
"aches" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aches” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,025
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of ache
Corpus desk
Index EN-aches · aches · English
aches · rank #20,025 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,025
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH adamant
Nearest frequency peer: adamant (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “aches”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Yvonne
Yvonne
79,980 corpus weight
- Zeppelin
Zeppelin
79,979 corpus weight
- aches
aches
79,976 corpus weight
- adamant
adamant
79,975 corpus weight
- airspace
airspace
79,974 corpus weight
- Alejandro
Alejandro
79,973 corpus weight
What this shows “aches” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | aches |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /eɪks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “aches”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around aches (IPA /eɪks/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,025 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of ache".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for aches, with forms such as "acches", "acehs", and "achess". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ACS", "aes", "acts", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is aches, spelled A-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of ache
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acches
- acehs
- achess
- achhes
- achse
- ahces
- cahes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aches - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).