heeds
/hiːdz/
"heeds" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“heeds” is uncommon English (frequency #99,353 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,353
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of heed
Corpus desk
Index EN-heeds · heeds · English
heeds · rank #99,353 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,353
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH heeler
Nearest frequency peer: heeler (+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 “heeds”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- HBOS
HBOS
652 corpus weight
- heatedly
heatedly
651 corpus weight
- Hecuba
Hecuba
650 corpus weight
- heeds
heeds
648 corpus weight
- heeler
heeler
647 corpus weight
- heinie
heinie
646 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “heeds” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heeds |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /hiːdz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “heeds” in English
Rare enough to double-check
heeds is uncommon English at frequency #99,353 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /hiːdz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of heed".
No misspelling variants are generated for heeds in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 heeds, spelled H-E-E-D-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of heed
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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