chides
/t͡ʃaɪdz/
"chides" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chides” is uncommon English (frequency #85,112 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,112
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of chide
Corpus desk
Index EN-chides · chides · English
chides · rank #85,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,112
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chenille
Nearest frequency peer: chenille (-2 rank slots)
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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 “chides”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- chaebol
chaebol
14,897 corpus weight
- chenille
chenille
14,891 corpus weight
- chides
chides
14,889 corpus weight
- cishet
cishet
14,883 corpus weight
- clonazepam
clonazepam
14,880 corpus weight
- coif
coif
14,879 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “chides” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chides |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /t͡ʃaɪdz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chides” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
chides is uncommon English at frequency #85,112 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /t͡ʃaɪdz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of chide".
Zero misspellings are on record for chides in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 chides, spelled C-H-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of chide
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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