deads
"deads" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“deads” is uncommon English (frequency #91,404 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,404
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The substances that enclose the ore on every side.
Corpus desk
Index EN-deads · deads · English
deads · rank #91,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,404
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dbh
Nearest frequency peer: dbh (-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 “deads”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cytoskeletal
cytoskeletal
8,603 corpus weight
- darkling
darkling
8,600 corpus weight
- dbh
dbh
8,598 corpus weight
- deads
deads
8,597 corpus weight
- decile
decile
8,595 corpus weight
- deforested
deforested
8,592 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “deads” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deads |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “deads” in English
Rare enough to double-check
deads is uncommon English at frequency #91,404 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The substances that enclose the ore on every side.".
deads has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is deads, spelled D-E-A-D-S.
Definition
- 1The substances that enclose the ore on every side.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how deads appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If there are no “deads” brought by hand the filling does not shrink from the back of the gunnie, but deads soon settle and lose a tenth of the height.
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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