holies
/ˈhoʊliz/
"holies" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“holies” is uncommon English (frequency #71,571 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,571
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of holy. Used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies.
Corpus desk
Index EN-holies · holies · English
holies · rank #71,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,571
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hizb
Nearest frequency peer: hizb (-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 “holies”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hemispheric
hemispheric
28,436 corpus weight
- hizb
hizb
28,432 corpus weight
- holies
holies
28,430 corpus weight
- hooky
hooky
28,428 corpus weight
- Howrah
Howrah
28,427 corpus weight
- Hsiang
Hsiang
28,426 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “holies” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | holies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhoʊliz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “holies” in English
Rare enough to double-check
holies is uncommon English at frequency #71,571 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhoʊliz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of holy. Used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for holies, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is holies, spelled H-O-L-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of holy. Used almost exclusively in Holy of Holies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how holies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The holy of holies, a cubical space of ten cubits on the side, was separated from the larger antechamber by four columns, which were also covered with gold and stood upon silver sockets; they bore a second curtain of four colors.
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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