banes
/beɪnz/
"banes" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“banes” is uncommon English (frequency #82,075 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,075
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of bane
Corpus desk
Index EN-banes · banes · English
banes · rank #82,075 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,075
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Baluch
Nearest frequency peer: Baluch (-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 “banes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- backwash
backwash
17,931 corpus weight
- Bakke
Bakke
17,929 corpus weight
- Baluch
Baluch
17,927 corpus weight
- banes
banes
17,926 corpus weight
- banishes
banishes
17,925 corpus weight
- Barabbas
Barabbas
17,923 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “banes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /beɪnz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #82,075 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “banes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
banes is uncommon English at frequency #82,075 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /beɪnz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of bane".
No generated misspelling entries exist for banes in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is banes, spelled B-A-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of bane
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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