gapes
/ɡeɪps/
"gapes" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gapes” is uncommon English (frequency #86,301 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,301
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of gape
Corpus desk
Index EN-gapes · gapes · English
gapes · rank #86,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,301
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gapped
Nearest frequency peer: gapped (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “gapes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fugazi
fugazi
13,705 corpus weight
- gapes
gapes
13,700 corpus weight
- gapped
gapped
13,699 corpus weight
- garçon
garçon
13,697 corpus weight
- gastrectomy
gastrectomy
13,696 corpus weight
- gastroesoph…
gastroesophageal
13,695 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gapes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gapes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɡeɪps/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gapes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gapes is uncommon English at frequency #86,301 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɡeɪps/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of gape".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gapes, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is gapes, spelled G-A-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of gape
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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