reaps
/ɹiːps/
"reaps" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reaps” is uncommon English (frequency #63,930 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,930
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of reap
| 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) |
Where “reaps” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
reaps is uncommon English at frequency #63,930 among 21,470 “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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Using “reaps”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-A-P-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.