piques
/piːks/
"piques" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“piques” is uncommon English (frequency #97,442 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,442
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of pique
Corpus desk
Index EN-piques · piques · English
piques · rank #97,442 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,442
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 46,516
- PHOTO-FINISH poisoner
Nearest frequency peer: poisoner (+3 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “piques”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Phaedrus
Phaedrus
2,566 corpus weight
- piques
piques
2,559 corpus weight
- poisoner
poisoner
2,556 corpus weight
- Polokwane
Polokwane
2,554 corpus weight
- polyandry
polyandry
2,553 corpus weight
- polymorph
polymorph
2,551 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “piques” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piques |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /piːks/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “piques” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
piques is uncommon English at frequency #97,442 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /piːks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of pique".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for piques, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is piques, spelled P-I-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of pique
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.