imps
/ɪmps/
"imps" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“imps” is uncommon English (frequency #50,589 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,589
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of imp
Corpus desk
Index EN-imps · imps · English
imps · rank #50,589 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,589
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH impresario
Nearest frequency peer: impresario (-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 “imps”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ido
Ido
49,416 corpus weight
- impresario
impresario
49,413 corpus weight
- imps
imps
49,412 corpus weight
- incineration
incineration
49,411 corpus weight
- incipient
incipient
49,410 corpus weight
- infest
infest
49,409 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “imps” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | imps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪmps/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “imps” in English
Rare enough to double-check
imps is uncommon English at frequency #50,589 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɪmps/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of imp".
No generated misspelling entries exist for imps in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is imps, spelled I-M-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of imp
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).