duds
/dʌdz/
"duds" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“duds” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,792. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,792
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of dud
Corpus desk
Index EN-duds · duds · English
duds · rank #39,792 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,792
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dur
Nearest frequency peer: dur (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “duds”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- droplet
droplet
60,212 corpus weight
- drunkard
drunkard
60,211 corpus weight
- duds
duds
60,209 corpus weight
- dur
dur
60,208 corpus weight
- Earp
Earp
60,207 corpus weight
- enabler
enabler
60,204 corpus weight
What this shows “duds” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | duds |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dʌdz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “duds”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around duds (IPA /dʌdz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,792 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of dud".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for duds, with forms such as "dduds", "ddus", and "dudds". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "due", "DVD", "duo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is duds, spelled D-U-D-S.
Definition
- 1plural of dud
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dduds
- ddus
- dudds
- dudss
- dusd
- udds
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of duds - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "duds", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).