draughts
/dɹɑːfts/
"draughts" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“draughts” is uncommon English (frequency #52,282 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,282
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of draught
Corpus desk
Index EN-draughts · draughts · English
draughts · rank #52,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,282
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dostoevsky
Nearest frequency peer: Dostoevsky (-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 “draughts”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- doobie
doobie
47,722 corpus weight
- Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky
47,720 corpus weight
- draughts
draughts
47,719 corpus weight
- droop
droop
47,718 corpus weight
- duce
duce
47,717 corpus weight
- duplicity
duplicity
47,716 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “draughts” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | draughts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɹɑːfts/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “draughts” in English
Rare enough to double-check
draughts is uncommon English at frequency #52,282 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɹɑːfts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of draught".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for draughts, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is draughts, spelled D-R-A-U-G-H-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of draught
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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