pails
/peɪlz/
"pails" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pails” is uncommon English (frequency #79,835 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,835
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of pail
Corpus desk
Index EN-pails · pails · English
pails · rank #79,835 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,835
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH oversubscribed
Nearest frequency peer: oversubscribed (-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 “pails”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- outputting
outputting
20,171 corpus weight
- oversubscri…
oversubscribed
20,168 corpus weight
- pails
pails
20,166 corpus weight
- pano
pano
20,164 corpus weight
- parenthetic…
parenthetical
20,163 corpus weight
- parkrun
parkrun
20,162 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pails” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pails |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /peɪlz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pails” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pails is uncommon English at frequency #79,835 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /peɪlz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of pail".
Zero misspellings are on record for pails in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is pails, spelled P-A-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1plural of pail
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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