bees
/ˈbiːz/
"bees" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bees” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,529) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,529
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of bee
Corpus desk
Index EN-bees · bees · English
bees · rank #7,529 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,529
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH beaches
Nearest frequency peer: beaches (-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 neighbours of confusable “bees”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Bangladesh
Bangladesh
92,475 corpus weight
- barack
barack
92,474 corpus weight
- beaches
beaches
92,473 corpus weight
- bees
bees
92,472 corpus weight
- boarding
boarding
92,471 corpus weight
- bothered
bothered
92,470 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “bees” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | bees |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbiːz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “bees”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bees is neighbouring look-alikes ("BS", "bus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈbiːz/. Frequency #7,529 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Gloss: "plural of bee".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bees, with forms such as "bbees", "beess", and "bese". 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, "BS", "bus", "bet", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is bees, spelled B-E-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of bee
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbees
- beess
- bese
- ebes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bees - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "bees", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).