breaks
/bɹeɪks/
"breaks" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“breaks” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,213. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,213
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of break
Corpus desk
Index EN-breaks · breaks · English
breaks · rank #3,213 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,213
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bound
Nearest frequency peer: bound (-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 “breaks”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- bedroom
bedroom
96,791 corpus weight
- belief
belief
96,790 corpus weight
- bound
bound
96,789 corpus weight
- breaks
breaks
96,788 corpus weight
- carefully
carefully
96,787 corpus weight
- cats
cats
96,786 corpus weight
What this shows “breaks” 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 | breaks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɹeɪks/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “breaks”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around breaks (IPA /bɹeɪks/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,213 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of break".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for breaks, with forms such as "bbreaks", "beraks", and "braeks". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "brews", "bream", "breath", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Break + -s, pluralisation suffix. The correct English form is breaks, spelled B-R-E-A-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of break
Etymology
Break + -s, pluralisation suffix.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbreaks
- beraks
- braeks
- breakks
- breakss
- breask
- brekas
- brreaks
- rbeaks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of breaks - 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 "breaks", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).