focusses
"focusses" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“focusses” is uncommon English (frequency #74,100 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,100
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of focus
Corpus desk
Index EN-focusses · focusses · English
focusses · rank #74,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,100
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH footlocker
Nearest frequency peer: footlocker (+2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “focusses”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fingerless
fingerless
25,905 corpus weight
- fitful
fitful
25,904 corpus weight
- focusses
focusses
25,901 corpus weight
- footlocker
footlocker
25,899 corpus weight
- foots
foots
25,898 corpus weight
- fortuitously
fortuitously
25,897 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “focusses” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | focusses |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “focusses” in English
Rare enough to double-check
focusses is uncommon English at frequency #74,100 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of focus".
focusses doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is focusses, spelled F-O-C-U-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of focus
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how focusses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I will next deſcribe the ſeveral Focuſſes, where the Putrifaction begins, as well as the Humour which is Putrified, and how that is transferred from one Focus to another ſometimes, or that there are many Focus’s at firſt.
The two points where the pins stand, are called the two focusses of the ellipsis. The line going through the focusses, from one end to the other, is called the longer diameter; and the line cutting the former in the middle between the focusses, is the shorter diameter.
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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