alleys
/ˈæ.liz/
"alleys" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alleys” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,672
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of alley
Corpus desk
Index EN-alleys · alleys · English
alleys · rank #26,672 · 7 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,672
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Alastair
Nearest frequency peer: Alastair (-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 “alleys”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Aiden
Aiden
73,332 corpus weight
- AIS
AIS
73,331 corpus weight
- Alastair
Alastair
73,330 corpus weight
- alleys
alleys
73,329 corpus weight
- almanac
almanac
73,328 corpus weight
- aloe
aloe
73,327 corpus weight
What this shows “alleys” 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 | alleys |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæ.liz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “alleys”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around alleys (IPA /ˈæ.liz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,672 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of alley".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for alleys, with forms such as "alelys", "aleys", and "allesy". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "ally", "alls", "alloy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is alleys, spelled A-L-L-E-Y-S.
Definition
- 1plural of alley
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alelys
- aleys
- allesy
- alleyss
- alleyys
- allyes
- laleys
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alleys - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "alleys", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).