lakes
/leɪks/
"lakes" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lakes” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,704. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,704
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of lake
Corpus desk
Index EN-lakes · lakes · English
lakes · rank #5,704 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,704
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Kyle
Nearest frequency peer: Kyle (-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 “lakes”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- judicial
judicial
94,300 corpus weight
- justify
justify
94,299 corpus weight
- Kyle
Kyle
94,298 corpus weight
- lakes
lakes
94,297 corpus weight
- lean
lean
94,296 corpus weight
- lecture
lecture
94,295 corpus weight
What this shows “lakes” 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 | lakes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /leɪks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “lakes”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around lakes (IPA /leɪks/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,704 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of lake".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for lakes, with forms such as "alkes", "laeks", and "lakess". 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, "las", "les", "like", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is lakes, spelled L-A-K-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of lake
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alkes
- laeks
- lakess
- lakkes
- lakse
- lkaes
- llakes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lakes - 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 "lakes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).