ES
"es" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ES” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,919) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,919
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Espírito Santo: a state of Brazil.
Corpus desk
Index EN-es · ES · English
ES · rank #7,919 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,919
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH enjoys
Nearest frequency peer: enjoys (-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 “ES”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- drums
drums
92,085 corpus weight
- elimination
elimination
92,084 corpus weight
- enjoys
enjoys
92,083 corpus weight
- ES
ES
92,082 corpus weight
- ESPN
ESPN
92,081 corpus weight
- ginger
ginger
92,080 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ES” 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 | ES |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ES”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ES is neighbouring look-alikes ("ex", "et", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #7,919 among 2,246 “E” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ES, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ex", "et", "EU", 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, 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 ES, spelled E-S.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Espírito Santo: a state of Brazil.
- 2Initialism of ECMAScript.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ES appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Work is underway, though, on the next generation of ES, appropriately named ES.Next (ECMA-262 Edition 6), but commonly referred to as ES 6. / As consensus is reached on new ES features, they’re added to the existing draft specification. They’re also listed in ES compatibility tables, such as the ones Mozilla incorporates in much of its documentation, and…
Several implementations of ES exist, for example, JavaScript, JScript, and Nashorn JavaScript.
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.