Islands
"islands" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Islands” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,004. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,004
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A district of Hong Kong.
Corpus desk
Index EN-islands · Islands · English
Islands · rank #3,004 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,004
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH inner
Nearest frequency peer: inner (-1 rank slots)
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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 “Islands”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Greek
Greek
97,000 corpus weight
- hanging
hanging
96,999 corpus weight
- inner
inner
96,998 corpus weight
- Islands
Islands
96,997 corpus weight
- le
le
96,996 corpus weight
- lift
lift
96,995 corpus weight
What this shows “Islands” 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 | Islands |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Islands”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Islands, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #3,004 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A district of Hong Kong.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Islands, with forms such as "ilsands", "isalnds", and "isladns". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "island", "inland", "islander", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From island, chosen because the district is located in an archipelago on the coast. The correct English form is Islands, spelled I-S-L-A-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1A district of Hong Kong.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Islands appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Islands District In recent years, the outlying islands have taken on an increasingly important role in catering for the recreational needs of the people of Hong Kong. As part of the Islands District development programme, projects continued throughout the year in both planning and construction to upgrade the living environment and to improve general facil…
The democrats now have majority control in almost all areas except the Islands District Council, where they won seven seats, and the pro-Beijing camp obtained 11 seats. Eight of the seats in the Islands District belong to ex-officio members, which were not included in Sunday’s election.
Etymology
From island, chosen because the district is located in an archipelago on the coast.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilsands
- isalnds
- isladns
- islandds
- islandss
- islannds
- islansd
- isllands
- islnads
- isslands
- silands
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Islands - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Islands", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).