ides
/aɪdz/
"ides" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ides” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #44,856 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #44,856
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The notional full-moon day of a Roman month, occurring on the 15th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 13th day of all other months.
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 | ides |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /aɪdz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,856 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ides” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for ides is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /aɪdz/. Corpus data places it at rank #44,856 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The notional full-moon day of a Roman month, occurring on the 15th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 13th day of all other months.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for ides, with forms such as "iddes", "idess", and "idse". 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, "is", "its", "IDK", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English ides, idus, from Anglo-Norman and Old French ides, from Latin īdūs, a fourth-declension plurale tantum, from the Latin practice of treating most recurring calendrical days as plurals. The Latin term is cognate with Oscan eiduis, both per… The correct English form is ides, spelled I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1The notional full-moon day of a Roman month, occurring on the 15th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 13th day of all other months.
Etymology
From Middle English ides, idus, from Anglo-Norman and Old French ides, from Latin īdūs, a fourth-declension plurale tantum, from the Latin practice of treating most recurring calendrical days as plurals. The Latin term is cognate with Oscan eiduis, both perhaps deriving from an unknown Etruscan term. Middle English and Old French also used the singular form ide.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iddes,idess,idse,ieds
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ides - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “ides”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-D-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /aɪdz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “is” - see the side-by-side comparison. ides vs is
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.