coves
/kəʊvz/
"coves" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coves” is uncommon English (frequency #53,468 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,468
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of cove
Corpus desk
Index EN-coves · coves · English
coves · rank #53,468 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,468
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH coverages
Nearest frequency peer: coverages (-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 “coves”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- coterie
coterie
46,536 corpus weight
- councilwoman
councilwoman
46,535 corpus weight
- coverages
coverages
46,534 corpus weight
- coves
coves
46,533 corpus weight
- crazily
crazily
46,532 corpus weight
- creationist
creationist
46,531 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coves” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coves |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kəʊvz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coves” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coves is uncommon English at frequency #53,468 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kəʊvz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of cove".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coves, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is coves, spelled C-O-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of cove
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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