pecks
/pɛks/
"pecks" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pecks” is uncommon English (frequency #68,525 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,525
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of peck
Corpus desk
Index EN-pecks · pecks · English
pecks · rank #68,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,525
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pato
Nearest frequency peer: pato (-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 “pecks”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- parasympath…
parasympathetic
31,482 corpus weight
- partido
partido
31,481 corpus weight
- pato
pato
31,478 corpus weight
- pecks
pecks
31,476 corpus weight
- Pelly
Pelly
31,472 corpus weight
- perioperati…
perioperative
31,471 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pecks” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pecks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɛks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pecks” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pecks is uncommon English at frequency #68,525 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɛks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of peck".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pecks, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is pecks, spelled P-E-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of peck
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).