cards
/kɑɹdz/
"cards" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cards” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,786. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,786
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of card
Corpus desk
Index EN-cards · cards · English
cards · rank #1,786 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,786
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH boss
Nearest frequency peer: boss (-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 “cards”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- birthday
birthday
98,218 corpus weight
- bitch
bitch
98,217 corpus weight
- boss
boss
98,216 corpus weight
- cards
cards
98,215 corpus weight
- changing
changing
98,214 corpus weight
- connection
connection
98,213 corpus weight
What this shows “cards” 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 | cards |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɑɹdz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cards”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cards (IPA /kɑɹdz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,786 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of card".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cards, with forms such as "acrds", "cadrs", and "cardds". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CDs", "cas", "CRS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is cards, spelled C-A-R-D-S.
Definition
- 1plural of card
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrds
- cadrs
- cardds
- cardss
- carrds
- carsd
- ccards
- crads
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cards - 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 "cards", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).