plagues
/pleɪɡz/
"plagues" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plagues” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #29,039 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #29,039
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of plague
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 | plagues |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pleɪɡz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “plagues” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for plagues is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pleɪɡz/. Corpus data places it at rank #29,039 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural of plague".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for plagues, with forms such as "lpagues", "palgues", and "plageus". 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. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "plates", "planes", "plaque", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is plagues, spelled P-L-A-G-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of plague
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lpagues,palgues,plageus,plaggues,plaguess,plaguse,plauges,plgaues,pllagues,pplagues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plagues - 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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Using “plagues”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-L-A-G-U-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pleɪɡz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “plates” - see the side-by-side comparison. plagues vs plates
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.