knives
/naɪvz/
"knives" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“knives” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,060. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,060
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of knife
Corpus desk
Index EN-knives · knives · English
knives · rank #9,060 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,060
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Johns
Nearest frequency peer: Johns (-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 “knives”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- IRA
IRA
90,944 corpus weight
- Jenkins
Jenkins
90,943 corpus weight
- Johns
Johns
90,942 corpus weight
- knives
knives
90,941 corpus weight
- Louisville
Louisville
90,940 corpus weight
- Malaysian
Malaysian
90,939 corpus weight
What this shows “knives” 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 | knives |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /naɪvz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,060 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “knives”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around knives (IPA /naɪvz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,060 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of knife".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for knives, with forms such as "kinves", "kknives", and "knievs". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "knife", "knees", "kites", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is knives, spelled K-N-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of knife
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kinves
- kknives
- knievs
- knivess
- knivse
- knivves
- knnives
- knvies
- nkives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of knives - 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 "knives", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).