glues
/ɡluːz/
"glues" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glues” is uncommon English (frequency #58,055 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,055
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of glue
Corpus desk
Index EN-glues · glues · English
glues · rank #58,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,055
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Glas
Nearest frequency peer: Glas (-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 “glues”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ghats
Ghats
41,951 corpus weight
- gish
gish
41,950 corpus weight
- glans
glans
41,948 corpus weight
- Glas
Glas
41,947 corpus weight
- glues
glues
41,946 corpus weight
- grounder
grounder
41,942 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “glues” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glues |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡluːz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “glues” in English
Rare enough to double-check
glues is uncommon English at frequency #58,055 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡluːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of glue".
glues has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 glues, spelled G-L-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of glue
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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