fleas
/ˈfliːz/
"fleas" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fleas” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #25,061. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,061
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of flea
Corpus desk
Index EN-fleas · fleas · English
fleas · rank #25,061 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,061
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fives
Nearest frequency peer: fives (-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 “fleas”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Fergus
Fergus
74,944 corpus weight
- fission
fission
74,942 corpus weight
- fives
fives
74,941 corpus weight
- fleas
fleas
74,940 corpus weight
- flurry
flurry
74,939 corpus weight
- folio
folio
74,938 corpus weight
What this shows “fleas” 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 | fleas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈfliːz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “fleas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fleas (IPA /ˈfliːz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,061 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of flea".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fleas, with forms such as "felas", "ffleas", and "flaes". 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, "flew", "fled", "flee", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is fleas, spelled F-L-E-A-S.
Definition
- 1plural of flea
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- felas
- ffleas
- flaes
- fleass
- flesa
- flleas
- lfeas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fleas - 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 "fleas", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).