climes
/klaɪmz/
"climes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“climes” is uncommon English (frequency #53,447 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,447
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of clime
Corpus desk
Index EN-climes · climes · English
climes · rank #53,447 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,447
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cicada
Nearest frequency peer: cicada (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “climes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Chiltern
Chiltern
46,558 corpus weight
- Chorley
Chorley
46,557 corpus weight
- cicada
cicada
46,555 corpus weight
- climes
climes
46,554 corpus weight
- CNY
CNY
46,553 corpus weight
- COBOL
COBOL
46,552 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “climes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | climes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /klaɪmz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “climes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
climes is uncommon English at frequency #53,447 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /klaɪmz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of clime".
climes has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is climes, spelled C-L-I-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of clime
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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