bares
/bɛɹz/
"bares" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bares” is uncommon English (frequency #52,797 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,797
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of bare
Corpus desk
Index EN-bares · bares · English
bares · rank #52,797 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,797
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 31,241
- PHOTO-FINISH barged
Nearest frequency peer: barged (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “bares”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- bajaj
bajaj
47,208 corpus weight
- bannerman
bannerman
47,206 corpus weight
- bares
bares
47,204 corpus weight
- barged
barged
47,203 corpus weight
- barony
barony
47,202 corpus weight
- barret
barret
47,201 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “bares” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bares |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bɛɹz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bares” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bares is uncommon English at frequency #52,797 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /bɛɹz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of bare".
No misspelling variants are generated for bares in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is bares, spelled B-A-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of bare
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.