cracks
/kɹæks/
"cracks" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cracks” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,267. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,267
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of crack
Corpus desk
Index EN-cracks · cracks · English
cracks · rank #8,267 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,267
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH coordination
Nearest frequency peer: coordination (-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 “cracks”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- conclude
conclude
91,737 corpus weight
- confidential
confidential
91,736 corpus weight
- coordination
coordination
91,735 corpus weight
- cracks
cracks
91,734 corpus weight
- cs
cs
91,733 corpus weight
- Delaware
Delaware
91,731 corpus weight
What this shows “cracks” 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 | cracks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɹæks/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cracks”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cracks (IPA /kɹæks/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,267 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of crack".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cracks, with forms such as "carcks", "ccracks", and "craccks". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "crank", "crock", "crass", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cracks, spelled C-R-A-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of crack
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carcks
- ccracks
- craccks
- crackks
- crackss
- cracsk
- crakcs
- crcaks
- crracks
- rcacks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cracks - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).