candles
/ˈkændl̩z/
"candles" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“candles” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,293. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,293
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of candle
Corpus desk
Index EN-candles · candles · English
candles · rank #9,293 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,293
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Calvin
Nearest frequency peer: Calvin (-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 “candles”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- broadly
broadly
90,711 corpus weight
- calcium
calcium
90,710 corpus weight
- Calvin
Calvin
90,709 corpus weight
- candles
candles
90,708 corpus weight
- capita
capita
90,707 corpus weight
- certainty
certainty
90,706 corpus weight
What this shows “candles” 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 | candles |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkændl̩z/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “candles”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around candles (IPA /ˈkændl̩z/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,293 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of candle".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for candles, with forms such as "acndles", "cadnles", and "canddles". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "canes", "Cannes", "canoes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is candles, spelled C-A-N-D-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of candle
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acndles
- cadnles
- canddles
- candels
- candless
- candlles
- candlse
- canldes
- canndles
- ccandles
- cnadles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of candles - 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 "candles", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).