bales
/beɪlz/
"bales" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bales” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,926. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,926
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of bale
Corpus desk
Index EN-bales · bales · English
bales · rank #29,926 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,926
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH ayr
Nearest frequency peer: ayr (-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 “bales”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- aviator
aviator
70,078 corpus weight
- avoidable
avoidable
70,077 corpus weight
- ayr
ayr
70,076 corpus weight
- bales
bales
70,075 corpus weight
- baring
baring
70,074 corpus weight
- Baum
Baum
70,073 corpus weight
What this shows “bales” 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 | bales |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /beɪlz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bales”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bales (IPA /beɪlz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,926 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of bale".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bales, with forms such as "ables", "baels", and "baless". 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, "Bas", "bes", "BLS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is bales, spelled B-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of bale
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ables
- baels
- baless
- balles
- balse
- bbales
- blaes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bales - 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 "bales", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).