aires
/eə(ɹ)z/
"aires" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aires” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,850) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,850
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of aire
Corpus desk
Index EN-aires · aires · English
aires · rank #13,850 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,850
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH acquaintance
Nearest frequency peer: acquaintance (-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 “aires”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Zack
Zack
86,155 corpus weight
- acquaintance
acquaintance
86,152 corpus weight
- aires
aires
86,151 corpus weight
- ambush
ambush
86,149 corpus weight
- Amelia
Amelia
86,148 corpus weight
- amend
amend
86,147 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “aires” 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 | aires |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /eə(ɹ)z/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “aires”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aires is neighbouring look-alikes ("are", "AIS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /eə(ɹ)z/. Frequency #13,850 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "plural of aire".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for aires, with forms such as "aiers", "airess", and "airres". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "are", "AIS", "area", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 aires, spelled A-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of aire
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aiers
- airess
- airres
- iares
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aires - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aires", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).