knaves
/neɪvz/
"knaves" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“knaves” is uncommon English (frequency #96,134 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,134
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of knave
Corpus desk
Index EN-knaves · knaves · English
knaves · rank #96,134 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,134
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 9,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Kleinfeld
Nearest frequency peer: Kleinfeld (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “knaves”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- kiang
kiang
3,876 corpus weight
- kielbasa
kielbasa
3,875 corpus weight
- Kinnaird
Kinnaird
3,873 corpus weight
- Kleinfeld
Kleinfeld
3,869 corpus weight
- knaves
knaves
3,867 corpus weight
- knifepoint
knifepoint
3,864 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “knaves” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | knaves |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /neɪvz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “knaves” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
knaves is uncommon English at frequency #96,134 among 9,255 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /neɪvz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of knave".
knaves has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 knaves, spelled K-N-A-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of knave
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.