deuces

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"deuces" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“deuces” is uncommon English (frequency #60,013 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,013
frequency rank, English
3,470
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - peace; goodbye (because of the associated gesture holding up two fingers)

Corpus desk

Index EN-deuces · deuces · English

deuces · rank #60,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,013
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,470
  • PHOTO-FINISH diadem

Nearest frequency peer: diadem (+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 “deuces”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “deuces” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for deuces
PropertyValue
Headworddeuces
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechInterjection
Letters6
Frequency rank#60,013
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “deuces” in English

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).deucesfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “diadem” (#60,014), “Deschanel” (#60,010), “diamondback” (#60,016). Among 3,470 “D” headwords, “deuces” is #60,013. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

deuces is uncommon English at frequency #60,013 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "peace; goodbye (because of the associated gesture holding up two fingers)".

No misspelling variants are generated for deuces in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is deuces, spelled D-E-U-C-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    peace; goodbye (because of the associated gesture holding up two fingers)

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how deuces appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Nigga! You got until tonight to get your shit, deuces nigga!

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "deuces"?
"deuces" is spelled D-E-U-C-E-S.
What does "deuces" mean?
As an interjection, "deuces" means: peace; goodbye (because of the associated gesture holding up two fingers)
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "deuces", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

diadem#60,014diddle#60,018dinero#60,022Darian#60,001

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list