glutes
/ɡluːts/
"glutes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glutes” is uncommon English (frequency #52,350 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,350
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of glute
Corpus desk
Index EN-glutes · glutes · English
glutes · rank #52,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,350
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gordie
Nearest frequency peer: Gordie (+2 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 “glutes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Georgy
Georgy
47,655 corpus weight
- glutes
glutes
47,651 corpus weight
- Gordie
Gordie
47,649 corpus weight
- goring
goring
47,648 corpus weight
- governorate
governorate
47,647 corpus weight
- grater
grater
47,646 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “glutes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glutes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɡluːts/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “glutes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
glutes is uncommon English at frequency #52,350 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɡluːts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of glute".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for glutes, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is glutes, spelled G-L-U-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of glute
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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