gloves
/ɡlʌvz/
"gloves" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gloves” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,690. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,690
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of glove
Corpus desk
Index EN-gloves · gloves · English
gloves · rank #6,690 · 9 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,690
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH freaking
Nearest frequency peer: freaking (-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 “gloves”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- flavor
flavor
93,314 corpus weight
- freaking
freaking
93,312 corpus weight
- gloves
gloves
93,311 corpus weight
- harper
harper
93,310 corpus weight
- hart
hart
93,309 corpus weight
- ignorance
ignorance
93,308 corpus weight
What this shows “gloves” 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 | gloves |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡlʌvz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “gloves”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gloves (IPA /ɡlʌvz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,690 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of glove".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gloves, with forms such as "ggloves", "glloves", and "gloevs". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "goes", "gove", "grove", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is gloves, spelled G-L-O-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of glove
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggloves
- glloves
- gloevs
- glovess
- glovse
- glovves
- glvoes
- golves
- lgoves
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gloves - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "gloves", 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).