apes
/eɪps/
"apes" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“apes” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,951) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,951
- 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 ape
Corpus desk
Index EN-apes · apes · English
apes · rank #15,951 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,951
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ANC
Nearest frequency peer: ANC (-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 “apes”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- alcoholism
alcoholism
84,053 corpus weight
- amplifier
amplifier
84,052 corpus weight
- ANC
ANC
84,051 corpus weight
- apes
apes
84,050 corpus weight
- arches
arches
84,049 corpus weight
- astounding
astounding
84,047 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “apes” 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 | apes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /eɪps/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “apes”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for apes is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "are", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /eɪps/. Frequency #15,951 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "plural of ape".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for apes, with forms such as "aeps", "apess", and "appes". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "are", "ass", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is apes, spelled A-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of ape
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aeps
- apess
- appes
- apse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apes - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).