countries
/ˈkʌntɹiz/
"countries" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“countries” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #762. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #762
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of country.
Corpus desk
Index EN-countries · countries · English
countries · rank #762 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-CORE #762
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH blue
Nearest frequency peer: blue (-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 “countries”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- whatever
whatever
99,242 corpus weight
- amount
amount
99,241 corpus weight
- blue
blue
99,240 corpus weight
- countries
countries
99,239 corpus weight
- David
David
99,238 corpus weight
- drive
drive
99,237 corpus weight
What this shows “countries” 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 | countries |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkʌntɹiz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “countries”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around countries (IPA /ˈkʌntɹiz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #762 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of country.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for countries, with forms such as "ccountries", "conutries", and "counntries". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "counties", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is countries, spelled C-O-U-N-T-R-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of country.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how countries appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccountries
- conutries
- counntries
- counrties
- countires
- countreis
- countriess
- countrise
- countrries
- counttries
- coutnries
- cuontries
- ocuntries
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of countries - 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 "countries", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).