mates
/meɪts/
"mates" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mates” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,248. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,248
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of mate
Corpus desk
Index EN-mates · mates · English
mates · rank #7,248 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,248
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Luis
Nearest frequency peer: Luis (-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 “mates”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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92,753 corpus weight
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What this shows “mates” 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 | mates |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /meɪts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mates”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mates (IPA /meɪts/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,248 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of mate".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mates, with forms such as "amtes", "maets", and "matess". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mes", "matt", "math", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is mates, spelled M-A-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of mate
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amtes
- maets
- matess
- matse
- mattes
- mmates
- mtaes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mates - 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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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).