dykes
/daɪks/
"dykes" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dykes” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,216. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,216
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of dyke
Corpus desk
Index EN-dykes · dykes · English
dykes · rank #33,216 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,216
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Eastbourne
Nearest frequency peer: Eastbourne (+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 “dykes”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- DPRK
DPRK
66,788 corpus weight
- drunkenness
drunkenness
66,787 corpus weight
- dykes
dykes
66,785 corpus weight
- Eastbourne
Eastbourne
66,784 corpus weight
- Ebenezer
Ebenezer
66,783 corpus weight
- ECM
ECM
66,782 corpus weight
What this shows “dykes” 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 | dykes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /daɪks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “dykes”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around dykes (IPA /daɪks/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,216 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of dyke".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dykes, with forms such as "ddykes", "dkyes", and "dyeks". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Des", "dye", "does", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: See dyke. The correct English form is dykes, spelled D-Y-K-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of dyke
Etymology
See dyke.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddykes
- dkyes
- dyeks
- dykess
- dykkes
- dykse
- dyykes
- ydkes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dykes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "dykes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).