rakes
/ɹeɪks/
"rakes" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rakes” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,329. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,329
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of rake
Corpus desk
Index EN-rakes · rakes · English
rakes · rank #41,329 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,329
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH ranching
Nearest frequency peer: ranching (+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 “rakes”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- purplish
purplish
58,676 corpus weight
- rabbinic
rabbinic
58,674 corpus weight
- rakes
rakes
58,672 corpus weight
- ranching
ranching
58,671 corpus weight
- rationaliza…
rationalization
58,669 corpus weight
- ravel
ravel
58,668 corpus weight
What this shows “rakes” 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 | rakes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹeɪks/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rakes”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around rakes (IPA /ɹeɪks/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,329 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of rake".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for rakes, with forms such as "arkes", "raeks", and "rakess". 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, "res", "ras", "rate", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is rakes, spelled R-A-K-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of rake
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arkes
- raeks
- rakess
- rakkes
- rakse
- rkaes
- rrakes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rakes - 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 "rakes", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).