reaps
/ɹiːps/
"reaps" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reaps” is uncommon English (frequency #63,930 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,930
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of reap
Corpus desk
Index EN-reaps · reaps · English
reaps · rank #63,930 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,930
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH rebuff
Nearest frequency peer: rebuff (+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 “reaps”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- rann
rann
36,078 corpus weight
- rashly
rashly
36,074 corpus weight
- Ravana
Ravana
36,073 corpus weight
- reaps
reaps
36,071 corpus weight
- rebuff
rebuff
36,070 corpus weight
- recursively
recursively
36,066 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reaps” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reaps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɹiːps/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reaps” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reaps is uncommon English at frequency #63,930 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɹiːps/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of reap".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for reaps, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is reaps, spelled R-E-A-P-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of reap
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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