freaks
/fɹiːks/
"freaks" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“freaks” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,724. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,724
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of freak.
Corpus desk
Index EN-freaks · freaks · English
freaks · rank #13,724 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,724
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fraternity
Nearest frequency peer: fraternity (-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 “freaks”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- flop
flop
86,281 corpus weight
- follower
follower
86,280 corpus weight
- fraternity
fraternity
86,278 corpus weight
- freaks
freaks
86,277 corpus weight
- fronts
fronts
86,275 corpus weight
- furry
furry
86,274 corpus weight
What this shows “freaks” 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 | freaks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fɹiːks/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “freaks”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around freaks (IPA /fɹiːks/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,724 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of freak.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for freaks, with forms such as "feraks", "ffreaks", and "fraeks". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "frees", "frets", "freaky", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is freaks, spelled F-R-E-A-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of freak.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how freaks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- feraks
- ffreaks
- fraeks
- freakks
- freakss
- freask
- frekas
- frreaks
- rfeaks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of freaks - 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 "freaks", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).