quays
/kiːz/
"quays" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quays” is uncommon English (frequency #51,338 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,338
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of quay
Corpus desk
Index EN-quays · quays · English
quays · rank #51,338 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,338
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH queso
Nearest frequency peer: queso (+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 “quays”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pucks
pucks
48,669 corpus weight
- purer
purer
48,668 corpus weight
- quays
quays
48,663 corpus weight
- queso
queso
48,662 corpus weight
- quinine
quinine
48,661 corpus weight
- quintus
quintus
48,660 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “quays” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quays |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kiːz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “quays” in English
Rare enough to double-check
quays is uncommon English at frequency #51,338 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kiːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of quay".
Zero misspellings are on record for quays in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is quays, spelled Q-U-A-Y-S.
Definition
- 1plural of quay
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).