complaints
/kəmˈpleɪnts/
"complaints" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“complaints” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,841. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,841
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of complaint
Corpus desk
Index EN-complaints · complaints · English
complaints · rank #4,841 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,841
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH complain
Nearest frequency peer: complain (-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 “complaints”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- coalition
coalition
95,163 corpus weight
- cock
cock
95,162 corpus weight
- complain
complain
95,161 corpus weight
- complaints
complaints
95,160 corpus weight
- controversi…
controversial
95,159 corpus weight
- Denver
Denver
95,158 corpus weight
What this shows “complaints” 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 | complaints |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəmˈpleɪnts/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “complaints”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around complaints (IPA /kəmˈpleɪnts/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,841 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of complaint".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for complaints, with forms such as "ccomplaints", "cmoplaints", and "comlpaints". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "complain", "complaint", "complains", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is complaints, spelled C-O-M-P-L-A-I-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of complaint
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomplaints
- cmoplaints
- comlpaints
- commplaints
- compalints
- complainnts
- complainst
- complaintss
- complaintts
- complaitns
- complanits
- compliants
- compllaints
- compplaints
- copmlaints
- ocmplaints
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of complaints - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).