eats
/iːts/
"eats" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eats” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,681) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,681
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” 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 eat
Corpus desk
Index EN-eats · eats · English
eats · rank #7,681 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,681
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH dudes
Nearest frequency peer: dudes (-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 neighbours of confusable “eats”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- dramatically
dramatically
92,323 corpus weight
- drank
drank
92,322 corpus weight
- dudes
dudes
92,321 corpus weight
- eats
eats
92,320 corpus weight
- elegant
elegant
92,319 corpus weight
- elevator
elevator
92,318 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “eats” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | eats |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /iːts/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “eats”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for eats is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "ES", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /iːts/. Frequency #7,681 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of eat".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for eats, with forms such as "aets", "eatss", and "eatts". 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, "et", "ES", "est", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 eats, spelled E-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of eat
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aets
- eatss
- eatts
- etas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of eats - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).