peeves
/piːvz/
"peeves" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“peeves” is uncommon English (frequency #51,307 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,307
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of peeve
Corpus desk
Index EN-peeves · peeves · English
peeves · rank #51,307 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,307
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH PDC
Nearest frequency peer: PDC (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “peeves”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Paducah
Paducah
48,700 corpus weight
- PDC
PDC
48,695 corpus weight
- peeves
peeves
48,694 corpus weight
- pelted
pelted
48,693 corpus weight
- peppy
peppy
48,692 corpus weight
- Pepys
Pepys
48,691 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “peeves” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peeves |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /piːvz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “peeves” in English
Rare enough to double-check
peeves is uncommon English at frequency #51,307 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /piːvz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of peeve".
No generated misspelling entries exist for peeves in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is peeves, spelled P-E-E-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of peeve
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).