guesses
/ˈɡɛsɪz/
"guesses" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guesses” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,101. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,101
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of guess
Corpus desk
Index EN-guesses · guesses · English
guesses · rank #22,101 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,101
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gums
Nearest frequency peer: gums (+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 “guesses”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- geologist
geologist
77,904 corpus weight
- goldsmith
goldsmith
77,903 corpus weight
- guesses
guesses
77,900 corpus weight
- gums
gums
77,899 corpus weight
- Haas
Haas
77,898 corpus weight
- Halle
Halle
77,897 corpus weight
What this shows “guesses” 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 | guesses |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɛsɪz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “guesses”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around guesses (IPA /ˈɡɛsɪz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,101 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of guess".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for guesses, with forms such as "geusses", "gguesses", and "gueses". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "guests", "guess", "glasses", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is guesses, spelled G-U-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of guess
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- geusses
- gguesses
- gueses
- guesess
- guessess
- guessse
- guseses
- ugesses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guesses - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).