ends
/ɛndz/
"ends" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ends” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,822. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,822
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of end
Corpus desk
Index EN-ends · ends · English
ends · rank #1,822 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,822
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH driver
Nearest frequency peer: driver (-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 “ends”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cultural
cultural
98,182 corpus weight
- develop
develop
98,181 corpus weight
- driver
driver
98,180 corpus weight
- ends
ends
98,179 corpus weight
- existing
existing
98,178 corpus weight
- farm
farm
98,177 corpus weight
What this shows “ends” 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 | ends |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɛndz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ends”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around ends (IPA /ɛndz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,822 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of end".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for ends, with forms such as "edns", "endds", and "endss". 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, "ES", "eng", "EPS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is ends, spelled E-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1plural of end
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- edns
- endds
- endss
- ennds
- ensd
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ends - 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
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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 (5 here; floor ≥5).