flexes
/ˈflɛksɪz/
"flexes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flexes” is uncommon English (frequency #56,125 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,125
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of flex
Corpus desk
Index EN-flexes · flexes · English
flexes · rank #56,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,125
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flatbread
Nearest frequency peer: flatbread (-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 neighbourhood for “flexes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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finalise
43,880 corpus weight
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finicky
43,879 corpus weight
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Firenze
43,878 corpus weight
- flatbread
flatbread
43,877 corpus weight
- flexes
flexes
43,876 corpus weight
- Flynt
Flynt
43,873 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “flexes” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flexes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈflɛksɪz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flexes” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
flexes is uncommon English at frequency #56,125 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈflɛksɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of flex".
No generated misspelling entries exist for flexes in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 flexes, spelled F-L-E-X-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of flex
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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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.