coves
/kəʊvz/
"coves" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coves” is uncommon English (frequency #53,468 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,468
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of cove
| 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) |
Where “coves” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
coves is uncommon English at frequency #53,468 among 43,570 “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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Using “coves”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-V-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kəʊvz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.