allies
/ˈælaɪz/
"allies" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“allies” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,504. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,504
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of ally
Corpus desk
Index EN-allies · allies · English
allies · rank #4,504 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,504
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH acceptable
Nearest frequency peer: acceptable (-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 “allies”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- volunteer
volunteer
95,500 corpus weight
- 7th
7th
95,499 corpus weight
- acceptable
acceptable
95,498 corpus weight
- allies
allies
95,497 corpus weight
- attempting
attempting
95,496 corpus weight
- auction
auction
95,495 corpus weight
What this shows “allies” 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 | allies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈælaɪz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “allies”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around allies (IPA /ˈælaɪz/), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,504 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of ally".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for allies, with forms such as "alies", "aliles", and "alleis". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "alls", "Aries", "axles", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is allies, spelled A-L-L-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of ally
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alies
- aliles
- alleis
- alliess
- allise
- lalies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allies - 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 "allies", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).