coverages

noun

"coverages" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“coverages” is uncommon English (frequency #53,467 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,467
frequency rank, English
5,599
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of coverage

Corpus desk

Index EN-coverages · coverages · English

coverages · rank #53,467 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,467
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,599
  • PHOTO-FINISH councilwoman

Nearest frequency peer: councilwoman (-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 “coverages”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “coverages” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for coverages
PropertyValue
Headwordcoverages
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#53,467
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “coverages” in English

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).coveragesfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Rare peers in the same band: “councilwoman” (#53,466), “coves” (#53,468), “coterie” (#53,465). Among 5,599 “C” headwords, “coverages” is #53,467. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

coverages is uncommon English at frequency #53,467 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of coverage".

No misspelling variants are generated for coverages in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is coverages, spelled C-O-V-E-R-A-G-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    plural of coverage

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how coverages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The most important and costly of these coverages, health care, is extraordinarily expensive everywhere in the world, and Canada's medicare has no reciprocity in any other country.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coverages"?
"coverages" is spelled C-O-V-E-R-A-G-E-S.
What does "coverages" mean?
As a noun, "coverages" means: plural of coverage
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "coverages", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list