penalties
/ˈpɛnəltiz/
"penalties" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“penalties” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,278. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,278
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of penalty
Corpus desk
Index EN-penalties · penalties · English
penalties · rank #6,278 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,278
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pastor
Nearest frequency peer: pastor (-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 “penalties”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- pale
pale
93,726 corpus weight
- particles
particles
93,725 corpus weight
- pastor
pastor
93,724 corpus weight
- penalties
penalties
93,723 corpus weight
- permanently
permanently
93,722 corpus weight
- pets
pets
93,721 corpus weight
What this shows “penalties” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penalties |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɛnəltiz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “penalties”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around penalties (IPA /ˈpɛnəltiz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,278 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of penalty".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for penalties, with forms such as "epnalties", "peanlties", and "penalites". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is penalties, spelled P-E-N-A-L-T-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of penalty
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnalties
- peanlties
- penalites
- penallties
- penalteis
- penaltiess
- penaltise
- penaltties
- penatlies
- penlaties
- pennalties
- pnealties
- ppenalties
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of penalties - 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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).