heists
/haɪsts/
"heists" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“heists” is uncommon English (frequency #50,563 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,563
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of heist
Corpus desk
Index EN-heists · heists · English
heists · rank #50,563 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,563
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH helpfully
Nearest frequency peer: helpfully (+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 “heists”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Headley
Headley
49,441 corpus weight
- headquarter
headquarter
49,440 corpus weight
- heists
heists
49,438 corpus weight
- helpfully
helpfully
49,437 corpus weight
- Hennepin
Hennepin
49,436 corpus weight
- herons
herons
49,435 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “heists” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heists |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /haɪsts/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,563 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “heists” in English
Rare enough to double-check
heists is uncommon English at frequency #50,563 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /haɪsts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of heist".
heists has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is heists, spelled H-E-I-S-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of heist
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how heists appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.
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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