glands
/ɡlændz/
"glands" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glands” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,371. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,371
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of gland
Corpus desk
Index EN-glands · glands · English
glands · rank #17,371 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,371
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH glacial
Nearest frequency peer: glacial (-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 “glands”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- genera
genera
82,633 corpus weight
- glacial
glacial
82,631 corpus weight
- glands
glands
82,630 corpus weight
- gloomy
gloomy
82,629 corpus weight
- graceful
graceful
82,628 corpus weight
- grievances
grievances
82,627 corpus weight
What this shows “glands” 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 | glands |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡlændz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “glands”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around glands (IPA /ɡlændz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,371 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of gland".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for glands, with forms such as "galnds", "gglands", and "gladns". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "grand", "glass", "glens", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is glands, spelled G-L-A-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1plural of gland
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- galnds
- gglands
- gladns
- glandds
- glandss
- glannds
- glansd
- gllands
- glnads
- lgands
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glands - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).