eyes
/aɪz/
"eyes" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eyes” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #619. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #619
- 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 eye
Corpus desk
Index EN-eyes · eyes · English
eyes · rank #619 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #619
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH especially
Nearest frequency peer: especially (-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 “eyes”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- account
account
99,385 corpus weight
- co
co
99,384 corpus weight
- especially
especially
99,383 corpus weight
- eyes
eyes
99,382 corpus weight
- include
include
99,381 corpus weight
- June
June
99,380 corpus weight
What this shows “eyes” 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 | eyes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aɪz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “eyes”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around eyes (IPA /aɪz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #619 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of eye".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for eyes, with forms such as "eeys", "eyess", and "eyse". 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, "eyre", "ES", "ee", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 eyes, spelled E-Y-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of eye
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eeys
- eyess
- eyse
- eyyes
- yees
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of eyes - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "eyes", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).