ads
/ædz/
"ads" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ads” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,134) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,134
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of ad
Corpus desk
Index EN-ads · ads · English
ads · rank #4,134 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,134
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH wooden
Nearest frequency peer: wooden (-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 “ads”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- uniform
uniform
95,870 corpus weight
- wildlife
wildlife
95,869 corpus weight
- wooden
wooden
95,868 corpus weight
- ads
ads
95,867 corpus weight
- aggressive
aggressive
95,866 corpus weight
- Anne
Anne
95,865 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ads” 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 | ads |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ædz/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ads”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ads is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ædz/. Frequency #4,134 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "plural of ad".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ads, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "at", "an", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 ads, spelled A-D-S.
Definition
- 1plural of ad
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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