asides
/əˈsaɪdz/
"asides" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“asides” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,071. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,071
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of aside
Corpus desk
Index EN-asides · asides · English
asides · rank #48,071 · 8 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,071
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Ashburn
Nearest frequency peer: Ashburn (-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 “asides”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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51,933 corpus weight
- Ashburn
Ashburn
51,931 corpus weight
- asides
asides
51,930 corpus weight
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aspergillus
51,929 corpus weight
- assistive
assistive
51,928 corpus weight
- audibly
audibly
51,927 corpus weight
What this shows “asides” 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 | asides |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈsaɪdz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “asides”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around asides (IPA /əˈsaɪdz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,071 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of aside".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for asides, with forms such as "aisdes", "asdies", and "asiddes". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "asses", "AIDS", "aide", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists 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 asides, spelled A-S-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of aside
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aisdes
- asdies
- asiddes
- asidess
- asidse
- asieds
- assides
- saides
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of asides - 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 "asides", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).