cities
/ˈsɪtiz/
"cities" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cities” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,522. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,522
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of city
Corpus desk
Index EN-cities · cities · English
cities · rank #1,522 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,522
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH bottom
Nearest frequency peer: bottom (-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 “cities”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- begin
begin
98,482 corpus weight
- benefits
benefits
98,481 corpus weight
- bottom
bottom
98,480 corpus weight
- cities
cities
98,479 corpus weight
- demand
demand
98,478 corpus weight
- engine
engine
98,477 corpus weight
What this shows “cities” 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 | cities |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɪtiz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cities”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cities (IPA /ˈsɪtiz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,522 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cities, with forms such as "ccities", "ciites", and "citeis". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "cries", "cutie", "copies", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is cities, spelled C-I-T-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of city
- 2plural of citie
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccities
- ciites
- citeis
- citiess
- citise
- citties
- ctiies
- icties
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cities - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "cities", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).