dies
/daɪz/
"dies" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dies” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,554) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,554
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of die
Corpus desk
Index EN-dies · dies · English
dies · rank #3,554 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,554
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH demands
Nearest frequency peer: demands (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dies”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- crack
crack
96,450 corpus weight
- deck
deck
96,449 corpus weight
- demands
demands
96,448 corpus weight
- dies
dies
96,447 corpus weight
- dragon
dragon
96,446 corpus weight
- dramatic
dramatic
96,445 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dies” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | dies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /daɪz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dies” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dies is neighbouring look-alikes ("DS", "due", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /daɪz/. Frequency #3,554 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of die".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for dies, with forms such as "ddies", "deis", and "diess". 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, "DS", "due", "dig", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is dies, spelled D-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of die
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddies
- deis
- diess
- dise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dies - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
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- "dies" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "DS". View pair
- 4 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #3,554 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "D" letter cohort. D–Z browse
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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.