asses
/ˈæsɪz/
"asses" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“asses” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,699) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,699
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of ass
Corpus desk
Index EN-asses · asses · English
asses · rank #9,699 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,699
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH analyses
Nearest frequency peer: analyses (-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 “asses”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- wines
wines
90,306 corpus weight
- wired
wired
90,305 corpus weight
- amendments
amendments
90,304 corpus weight
- analyses
analyses
90,303 corpus weight
- asses
asses
90,302 corpus weight
- assisting
assisting
90,300 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “asses” 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 | asses |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæsɪz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “asses”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for asses is neighbouring look-alikes ("axes", "asset", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈæsɪz/. Frequency #9,699 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "plural of ass".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for asses, with forms such as "ases", "assse", and "sases". 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, "axes", "asset", "axles", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is asses, spelled A-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of ass
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ases
- assse
- sases
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of asses - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).