pease
/piːz/
"pease" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pease” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #37,149. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,149
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of pea (“common plant; its edible seed”).
Corpus desk
Index EN-pease · pease · English
pease · rank #37,149 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,149
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH patted
Nearest frequency peer: patted (-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 “pease”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Pasteur
Pasteur
62,855 corpus weight
- pasting
pasting
62,854 corpus weight
- patted
patted
62,853 corpus weight
- pease
pease
62,852 corpus weight
- peels
peels
62,851 corpus weight
- peeve
peeve
62,850 corpus weight
What this shows “pease” 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 | pease |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /piːz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “pease”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around pease (IPA /piːz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,149 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative form of pea (“common plant; its edible seed”).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pease, with forms such as "epase", "paese", and "peaes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pee", "pes", "Pete", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English pese (“pea”), from Old English pise (“pea”), from Late Latin pisa, variant of Latin pisum (“pea”), from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson), variant of πίσος (písos). The correct English form is pease, spelled P-E-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of pea (“common plant; its edible seed”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pease appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, […]
It was fiercely cold, but I was a good deal warmed when the lad who drove me, talking of the crops of the country, spoke of “the peasen.” Thank God! I said to myself, there is still some smack of old England left in the land.
Etymology
From Middle English pese (“pea”), from Old English pise (“pea”), from Late Latin pisa, variant of Latin pisum (“pea”), from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson), variant of πίσος (písos).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epase
- paese
- peaes
- peasse
- pesae
- ppease
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pease - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pease", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).