deeps
"deeps" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“deeps” is uncommon English (frequency #79,437 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,437
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of deep
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deeps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “deeps” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
deeps is uncommon English at frequency #79,437 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of deep".
No generated misspelling entries exist for deeps in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is deeps, spelled D-E-E-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of deep
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 “deeps”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-E-E-P-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.