cringes
/ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/
"cringes" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cringes” is uncommon English (frequency #84,127 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,127
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of cringe
Corpus desk
Index EN-cringes · cringes · English
cringes · rank #84,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,127
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cresting
Nearest frequency peer: cresting (-2 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 “cringes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cottonmouth
cottonmouth
15,880 corpus weight
- Couse
Couse
15,878 corpus weight
- cresting
cresting
15,876 corpus weight
- cringes
cringes
15,874 corpus weight
- crouches
crouches
15,871 corpus weight
- crumpet
crumpet
15,870 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cringes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cringes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,127 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cringes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cringes is uncommon English at frequency #84,127 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of cringe".
Zero misspellings are on record for cringes in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is cringes, spelled C-R-I-N-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of cringe
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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