businesses
/ˈbɪz.nɪ.sɪz/
"businesses" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“businesses” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #2,192. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,192
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of business
Corpus desk
Index EN-businesses · businesses · English
businesses · rank #2,192 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #2,192
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 31,241
- PHOTO-FINISH angry
Nearest frequency peer: angry (-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 “businesses”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ya
ya
97,812 corpus weight
- abuse
abuse
97,811 corpus weight
- angry
angry
97,810 corpus weight
- businesses
businesses
97,809 corpus weight
- candidate
candidate
97,808 corpus weight
- comfortable
comfortable
97,807 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “businesses” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | businesses |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɪz.nɪ.sɪz/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #2,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “businesses” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around businesses (IPA /ˈbɪz.nɪ.sɪz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,192 among 31,241 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of business".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for businesses, with forms such as "bbusinesses", "bsuinesses", and "buisnesses". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "business", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is businesses, spelled B-U-S-I-N-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of business
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbusinesses
- bsuinesses
- buisnesses
- busiensses
- busineses
- businesess
- businessess
- businessse
- businnesses
- businseses
- busniesses
- bussinesses
- ubsinesses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of businesses - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "businesses", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
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.