cysts
/sɪsts/
"cysts" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cysts” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,340. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,340
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of cyst
Corpus desk
Index EN-cysts · cysts · English
cysts · rank #32,340 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,340
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cryptography
Nearest frequency peer: cryptography (-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 “cysts”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Creighton
Creighton
67,665 corpus weight
- crouching
crouching
67,664 corpus weight
- crowder
crowder
67,663 corpus weight
- cryptography
cryptography
67,662 corpus weight
- cysts
cysts
67,661 corpus weight
- dapper
dapper
67,658 corpus weight
What this shows “cysts” 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 | cysts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɪsts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cysts”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cysts (IPA /sɪsts/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,340 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of cyst".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cysts, with forms such as "ccysts", "csyts", and "cyssts". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CSS", "CST", "cost", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is cysts, spelled C-Y-S-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of cyst
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccysts
- csyts
- cyssts
- cystss
- cystts
- cytss
- cyysts
- ycsts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cysts - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).