minds
/maɪndz/
"minds" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“minds” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,315. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,315
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of mind
Corpus desk
Index EN-minds · minds · English
minds · rank #3,315 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,315
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH math
Nearest frequency peer: math (-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 “minds”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Luke
Luke
96,689 corpus weight
- mac
mac
96,688 corpus weight
- math
math
96,687 corpus weight
- minds
minds
96,686 corpus weight
- mistakes
mistakes
96,685 corpus weight
- mystery
mystery
96,684 corpus weight
What this shows “minds” 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 | minds |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /maɪndz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “minds”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around minds (IPA /maɪndz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,315 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of mind".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for minds, with forms such as "imnds", "midns", and "mindds". 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, "miss", "mine", "mini", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 minds, spelled M-I-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1plural of mind
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnds
- midns
- mindds
- mindss
- minnds
- minsd
- mminds
- mnids
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of minds - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).