lips
/lɪps/
"lips" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lips” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,958. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,958
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of lip
Corpus desk
Index EN-lips · lips · English
lips · rank #3,958 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,958
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH leather
Nearest frequency peer: leather (-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 “lips”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Josh
Josh
96,046 corpus weight
- knock
knock
96,045 corpus weight
- leather
leather
96,044 corpus weight
- lips
lips
96,043 corpus weight
- luxury
luxury
96,042 corpus weight
- lyrics
lyrics
96,041 corpus weight
What this shows “lips” 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 | lips |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lɪps/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “lips”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around lips (IPA /lɪps/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,958 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of lip".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for lips, with forms such as "ilps", "lipps", and "lipss". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LP", "Ls", "los", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is lips, spelled L-I-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of lip
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilps
- lipps
- lipss
- llips
- lpis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lips - 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 "lips", 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 (5 here; floor ≥5).