claps
/klæps/
"claps" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“claps” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,180. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,180
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of clap
Corpus desk
Index EN-claps · claps · English
claps · rank #33,180 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,180
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clamped
Nearest frequency peer: clamped (-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 “claps”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cit
cit
66,824 corpus weight
- civics
civics
66,823 corpus weight
- clamped
clamped
66,822 corpus weight
- claps
claps
66,821 corpus weight
- clementine
clementine
66,820 corpus weight
- clipboard
clipboard
66,819 corpus weight
What this shows “claps” 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 | claps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /klæps/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “claps”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around claps (IPA /klæps/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,180 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of clap".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for claps, with forms such as "calps", "cclaps", and "clapps". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CPS", "CLP", "cops", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is claps, spelled C-L-A-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of clap
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- calps
- cclaps
- clapps
- clapss
- cllaps
- clpas
- lcaps
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of claps - 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 "claps", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).