ayes
/aɪz/
"ayes" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ayes” is uncommon English (frequency #70,474 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,474
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of aye
Corpus desk
Index EN-ayes · ayes · English
ayes · rank #70,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,474
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH AVN
Nearest frequency peer: AVN (-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 “ayes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- authoritati…
authoritatively
29,531 corpus weight
- aven
aven
29,530 corpus weight
- AVN
AVN
29,528 corpus weight
- ayes
ayes
29,527 corpus weight
- azadi
azadi
29,525 corpus weight
- Baddeley
Baddeley
29,522 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ayes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ayes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aɪz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ayes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ayes is uncommon English at frequency #70,474 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /aɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of aye".
Zero misspellings are on record for ayes in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 ayes, spelled A-Y-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of aye
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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