plunges
"plunges" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plunges” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #37,160. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,160
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of plunge
Corpus desk
Index EN-plunges · plunges · English
plunges · rank #37,160 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,160
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH politburo
Nearest frequency peer: politburo (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “plunges”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- PFC
PFC
62,844 corpus weight
- photojourna…
photojournalist
62,843 corpus weight
- plunges
plunges
62,841 corpus weight
- politburo
politburo
62,840 corpus weight
- polystyrene
polystyrene
62,839 corpus weight
- pontiff
pontiff
62,838 corpus weight
What this shows “plunges” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | plunges |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “plunges”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around plunges, averb. Corpus frequency is #37,160 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of plunge".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for plunges, with forms such as "lpunges", "pllunges", and "plnuges". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "prunes", "plugs", "planes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 plunges, spelled P-L-U-N-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of plunge
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how plunges appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpunges
- pllunges
- plnuges
- plugnes
- plunegs
- plungess
- plungges
- plungse
- plunnges
- pplunges
- pulnges
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plunges - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "plunges", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).