asylums
/əˈsaɪləmz/
"asylums" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“asylums” is uncommon English (frequency #52,784 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,784
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of asylum
Corpus desk
Index EN-asylums · asylums · English
asylums · rank #52,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,784
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH avarice
Nearest frequency peer: avarice (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “asylums”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- arrondissem…
arrondissement
47,221 corpus weight
- Arthurian
Arthurian
47,220 corpus weight
- articular
articular
47,219 corpus weight
- asylums
asylums
47,217 corpus weight
- avarice
avarice
47,216 corpus weight
- awsome
awsome
47,212 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “asylums” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asylums |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈsaɪləmz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “asylums” in English
Rare enough to double-check
asylums is uncommon English at frequency #52,784 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈsaɪləmz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of asylum".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for asylums, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 asylums, spelled A-S-Y-L-U-M-S.
Definition
- 1plural of asylum
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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