pastes
/peɪsts/
"pastes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pastes” is uncommon English (frequency #53,768 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,768
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of paste
Corpus desk
Index EN-pastes · pastes · English
pastes · rank #53,768 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,768
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH paragliding
Nearest frequency peer: paragliding (-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 “pastes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Paki
Paki
46,238 corpus weight
- Palacio
Palacio
46,237 corpus weight
- Papadopoulos
Papadopoulos
46,236 corpus weight
- paragliding
paragliding
46,235 corpus weight
- pastes
pastes
46,233 corpus weight
- pasties
pasties
46,231 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pastes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pastes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /peɪsts/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pastes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pastes is uncommon English at frequency #53,768 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /peɪsts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of paste".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pastes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is pastes, spelled P-A-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of paste
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).