keys
/kiːz/
"keys" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“keys” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,699. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,699
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of key
Corpus desk
Index EN-keys · keys · English
keys · rank #3,699 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,699
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH intense
Nearest frequency peer: intense (-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 “keys”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- handling
handling
96,305 corpus weight
- idiot
idiot
96,304 corpus weight
- intense
intense
96,303 corpus weight
- keys
keys
96,302 corpus weight
- lawyers
lawyers
96,301 corpus weight
- lifetime
lifetime
96,300 corpus weight
What this shows “keys” 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 | keys |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kiːz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “keys”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around keys (IPA /kiːz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,699 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for keys, with forms such as "ekys", "kesy", and "keyss". 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, "ky", "KS", "KMS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is keys, spelled K-E-Y-S.
Definition
- 1plural of key
- 2keyboard
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ekys
- kesy
- keyss
- keyys
- kkeys
- kyes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of keys - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "keys", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).