paces
/ˈpeɪsɪz/
"paces" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“paces” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,348. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,348
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of pace
Corpus desk
Index EN-paces · paces · English
paces · rank #23,348 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,348
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH ova
Nearest frequency peer: ova (-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 “paces”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Nikita
Nikita
76,656 corpus weight
- orphaned
orphaned
76,655 corpus weight
- ova
ova
76,654 corpus weight
- paces
paces
76,653 corpus weight
- paine
paine
76,652 corpus weight
- palladium
palladium
76,651 corpus weight
What this shows “paces” 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 | paces |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpeɪsɪz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “paces”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around paces (IPA /ˈpeɪsɪz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,348 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of pace".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for paces, with forms such as "apces", "pacces", and "pacess". 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, "pcs", "pas", "pes", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is paces, spelled P-A-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of pace
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apces
- pacces
- pacess
- pacse
- paecs
- pcaes
- ppaces
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paces - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (7 here; floor ≥5).