horses
/ˈhoɹsɪz/
"horses" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“horses” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,306. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,306
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of horse
Corpus desk
Index EN-horses · horses · English
horses · rank #3,306 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,306
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH gross
Nearest frequency peer: gross (-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 “horses”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- governments
governments
96,698 corpus weight
- gray
gray
96,697 corpus weight
- gross
gross
96,696 corpus weight
- horses
horses
96,695 corpus weight
- hungry
hungry
96,694 corpus weight
- informed
informed
96,693 corpus weight
What this shows “horses” 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 | horses |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhoɹsɪz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “horses”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around horses (IPA /ˈhoɹsɪz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,306 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for horses, with forms such as "hhorses", "horess", and "horrses". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hose", "hoss", "house", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is horses, spelled H-O-R-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of horse
- 2Horsepower.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how horses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I got four hundred horses tucked under the hood.
This is a diagnostic test of your engine. You're supposed to have an output of a hundred and sixty-eight horses at sixty-two hundred R.P.M.s. You're nowhere near that.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhorses
- horess
- horrses
- horsess
- horsses
- hosres
- hroses
- ohrses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of horses - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "horses", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).