plaudits
"plaudits" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plaudits” is uncommon English (frequency #62,416 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,416
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of plaudit
Corpus desk
Index EN-plaudits · plaudits · English
plaudits · rank #62,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,416
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH planer
Nearest frequency peer: planer (-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 “plaudits”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- phylum
phylum
37,589 corpus weight
- pianoforte
pianoforte
37,588 corpus weight
- pincer
pincer
37,587 corpus weight
- planer
planer
37,586 corpus weight
- plaudits
plaudits
37,585 corpus weight
- polyamory
polyamory
37,584 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “plaudits” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaudits |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “plaudits” in English
Rare enough to double-check
plaudits is uncommon English at frequency #62,416 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of plaudit".
No generated misspelling entries exist for plaudits in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is plaudits, spelled P-L-A-U-D-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of plaudit
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plaudits appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As soon as they had finished, the whole assembly could scarce refrain from breaking forth in loud plaudits, as at the public theatre ; and a humming of mixed voices and patting feet was heard throughout.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).