bails
/beɪlz/
"bails" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bails” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,199. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,199
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of bail
Corpus desk
Index EN-bails · bails · English
bails · rank #49,199 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,199
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Barrios
Nearest frequency peer: Barrios (+4 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 “bails”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- asinine
asinine
50,808 corpus weight
- bails
bails
50,802 corpus weight
- Barrios
Barrios
50,798 corpus weight
- Baumann
Baumann
50,797 corpus weight
- bawdy
bawdy
50,796 corpus weight
- beaut
beaut
50,795 corpus weight
What this shows “bails” 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 | bails |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /beɪlz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bails”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bails (IPA /beɪlz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,199 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of bail".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bails, with forms such as "abils", "baills", and "bailss". 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, "bis", "Bas", "bal", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 bails, spelled B-A-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1plural of bail
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abils
- baills
- bailss
- balis
- bbails
- bials
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bails - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).