Pleiades
/ˈplaɪ.əˌdiːz/
"pleiades" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pleiades” is uncommon English (frequency #59,627 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,627
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pleiades · Pleiades · English
Pleiades · rank #59,627 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,627
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pleadings
Nearest frequency peer: pleadings (-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 “Pleiades”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- perron
perron
40,380 corpus weight
- pleadings
pleadings
40,375 corpus weight
- Pleiades
Pleiades
40,374 corpus weight
- Plovdiv
Plovdiv
40,372 corpus weight
- pluripotent
pluripotent
40,371 corpus weight
- Podolski
Podolski
40,369 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Pleiades” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pleiades |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈplaɪ.əˌdiːz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Pleiades” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Pleiades is uncommon English at frequency #59,627 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈplaɪ.əˌdiːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Pleiades, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Pleiades, from Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes). In the astronomical sense, displaced Old English seofonstierre (literally “the seven stars”). The correct English form is Pleiades, spelled P-L-E-I-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.
- 2An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.
Etymology
From Latin Pleiades, from Ancient Greek Πλειάδες (Pleiádes). In the astronomical sense, displaced Old English seofonstierre (literally “the seven stars”).
Synonyms
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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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