continues
/kənˈtɪn.juːz/
"continues" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“continues” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,688. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,688
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of continue
Corpus desk
Index EN-continues · continues · English
continues · rank #1,688 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,688
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Christ
Nearest frequency peer: Christ (-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 “continues”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- camp
camp
98,316 corpus weight
- cast
cast
98,315 corpus weight
- Christ
Christ
98,314 corpus weight
- continues
continues
98,313 corpus weight
- correct
correct
98,312 corpus weight
- dangerous
dangerous
98,311 corpus weight
What this shows “continues” 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 | continues |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kənˈtɪn.juːz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,688 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “continues”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around continues (IPA /kənˈtɪn.juːz/), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,688 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of continue".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for continues, with forms such as "ccontinues", "cnotinues", and "conitnues". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "continuum", "convinces", "continuous", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 continues, spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of continue
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontinues
- cnotinues
- conitnues
- conntinues
- contineus
- continnues
- continuess
- continuse
- contiunes
- contniues
- conttinues
- cotninues
- ocntinues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of continues - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).