pleasures
/ˈplɛʒɚz/
"pleasures" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pleasures” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,188
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of pleasure
Corpus desk
Index EN-pleasures · pleasures · English
pleasures · rank #14,188 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,188
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pioneering
Nearest frequency peer: pioneering (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pleasures”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pearls
pearls
85,816 corpus weight
- physiologic…
physiological
85,815 corpus weight
- pioneering
pioneering
85,814 corpus weight
- pleasures
pleasures
85,813 corpus weight
- poo
poo
85,811 corpus weight
- poultry
poultry
85,810 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pleasures” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | pleasures |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈplɛʒɚz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pleasures” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around pleasures (IPA /ˈplɛʒɚz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,188 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of pleasure".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for pleasures, with forms such as "lpeasures", "pelasures", and "plaesures". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pleasure", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 pleasures, spelled P-L-E-A-S-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of pleasure
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpeasures
- pelasures
- plaesures
- pleasrues
- pleassures
- pleasuers
- pleasuress
- pleasurres
- pleasurse
- pleausres
- plesaures
- plleasures
- ppleasures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pleasures - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pleasures", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "pleasure". View pair
- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #14,188 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
- PlainSpell rotates a curated Word of the Day from the English corpus, a passive way to discover vocabulary. Word of the Day
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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.