pores
/pɔɹz/
"pores" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pores” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,211. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,211
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of pore
Corpus desk
Index EN-pores · pores · English
pores · rank #17,211 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,211
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Polly
Nearest frequency peer: Polly (-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 “pores”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- playable
playable
82,793 corpus weight
- plunged
plunged
82,792 corpus weight
- Polly
Polly
82,791 corpus weight
- pores
pores
82,790 corpus weight
- posh
posh
82,789 corpus weight
- practising
practising
82,788 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pores” 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 | pores |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɔɹz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pores” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around pores (IPA /pɔɹz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,211 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of pore".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for pores, with forms such as "opres", "poers", and "poress". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pos", "PRS", "port", 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, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is pores, spelled P-O-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of pore
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pores 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:
- opres
- poers
- poress
- porres
- ppores
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pores - 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 "pores", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "pores" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "pos". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #17,211 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.