mists
/mɪsts/
"mists" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mists” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,833. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,833
- 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 mist
Corpus desk
Index EN-mists · mists · English
mists · rank #35,833 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,833
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mobster
Nearest frequency peer: mobster (+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 “mists”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Melania
Melania
64,173 corpus weight
- melanin
melanin
64,172 corpus weight
- Messina
Messina
64,171 corpus weight
- mists
mists
64,168 corpus weight
- mobster
mobster
64,167 corpus weight
- Montevideo
Montevideo
64,166 corpus weight
What this shows “mists” 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 | mists |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɪsts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #35,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mists”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mists (IPA /mɪsts/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,833 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of mist".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mists, with forms such as "imsts", "missts", and "mistss". 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, "mit", "MST", "Mss", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is mists, spelled M-I-S-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of mist
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imsts
- missts
- mistss
- mistts
- mitss
- mmists
- msits
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mists - 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 "mists", 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).