banishes
/ˈbænɪʃɪz/
"banishes" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“banishes” is uncommon English (frequency #82,076 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,076
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of banish
Corpus desk
Index EN-banishes · banishes · English
banishes · rank #82,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,076
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH banes
Nearest frequency peer: banes (-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 “banishes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- Basinger
Basinger
17,920 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “banishes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | banishes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈbænɪʃɪz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #82,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “banishes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
banishes is uncommon English at frequency #82,076 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈbænɪʃɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of banish".
No misspelling variants are generated for banishes in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is banishes, spelled B-A-N-I-S-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of banish
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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