meads
"meads" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meads” is uncommon English (frequency #65,300 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,300
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of mead
Corpus desk
Index EN-meads · meads · English
meads · rank #65,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,300
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH megalomaniac
Nearest frequency peer: megalomaniac (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “meads”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Maryann
Maryann
34,707 corpus weight
- Mazur
Mazur
34,705 corpus weight
- McAdam
McAdam
34,704 corpus weight
- meads
meads
34,701 corpus weight
- megalomaniac
megalomaniac
34,699 corpus weight
- micrometer
micrometer
34,695 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “meads” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meads |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “meads” in English
Rare enough to double-check
meads is uncommon English at frequency #65,300 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of mead".
No generated misspelling entries exist for meads in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is meads, spelled M-E-A-D-S.
Definition
- 1plural of mead
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meads appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On this side of the River they passed forests of great reeds, so tall that they shut out all view to the west ... Here and there through openings Frodo could catch sudden glimpses of rolling meads, and far beyond them hills in the sunset […]
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).