clips
/klɪps/
"clips" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clips” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,664. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,664
- 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 clip
Corpus desk
Index EN-clips · clips · English
clips · rank #6,664 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,664
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clearing
Nearest frequency peer: clearing (-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 “clips”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- bugs
bugs
93,340 corpus weight
- bust
bust
93,339 corpus weight
- clearing
clearing
93,338 corpus weight
- clips
clips
93,337 corpus weight
- collar
collar
93,336 corpus weight
- Columbus
Columbus
93,335 corpus weight
What this shows “clips” 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 | clips |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /klɪps/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “clips”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around clips (IPA /klɪps/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,664 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of clip".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for clips, with forms such as "cclips", "cilps", and "clipps". 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, "CPS", "CLP", "cops", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 clips, spelled C-L-I-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of clip
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclips
- cilps
- clipps
- clipss
- clisp
- cllips
- clpis
- lcips
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clips - 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 "clips", 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).