heaves
/hiːvz/
"heaves" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“heaves” is uncommon English (frequency #75,033 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,033
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of heave
Corpus desk
Index EN-heaves · heaves · English
heaves · rank #75,033 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,033
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hatha
Nearest frequency peer: hatha (-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 “heaves”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Harpenden
Harpenden
24,972 corpus weight
- harpist
harpist
24,971 corpus weight
- hatha
hatha
24,970 corpus weight
- heaves
heaves
24,968 corpus weight
- Hellen
Hellen
24,966 corpus weight
- helmeted
helmeted
24,965 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “heaves” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heaves |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hiːvz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “heaves” in English
Rare enough to double-check
heaves is uncommon English at frequency #75,033 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /hiːvz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of heave".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for heaves, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 heaves, spelled H-E-A-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of heave
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).