focusses

noun

"focusses" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“focusses” is uncommon English (frequency #74,100 among 18,613 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#74,100
frequency rank, English
18,613
“F” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of focus

Key facts for focusses
PropertyValue
Headwordfocusses
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Frequency rank#74,100
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “focusses” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). focusses lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

focusses is uncommon English at frequency #74,100 among 18,613 “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

  1. 1
    plural of focus

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "focusses"?
"focusses" is spelled F-O-C-U-S-S-E-S.
What does "focusses" mean?
As a noun, "focusses" means: plural of focus
What language does "focusses" come from?
"focusses" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “focusses”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is F-O-C-U-S-S-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

Data Source

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list