queues
/kjuːz/
"queues" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“queues” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,190. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,190
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of queue
Corpus desk
Index EN-queues · queues · English
queues · rank #22,190 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,190
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH qt
Nearest frequency peer: qt (-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 “queues”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- PVC
PVC
77,814 corpus weight
- Q1
Q1
77,813 corpus weight
- qt
qt
77,812 corpus weight
- queues
queues
77,811 corpus weight
- Ramadan
Ramadan
77,810 corpus weight
- rambling
rambling
77,809 corpus weight
What this shows “queues” 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 | queues |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kjuːz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “queues”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around queues (IPA /kjuːz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,190 among 288 “Q” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of queue".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for queues, with forms such as "qeuues", "qqueues", and "queeus". 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, "quotes", "queen", "queue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is queues, spelled Q-U-E-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of queue
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qeuues
- qqueues
- queeus
- queuess
- queuse
- quuees
- uqeues
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of queues - 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 "queues", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).