reasons
/ˈɹiː.zənz/
"reasons" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reasons” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,252. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,252
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of reason
Corpus desk
Index EN-reasons · reasons · English
reasons · rank #1,252 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,252
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH none
Nearest frequency peer: none (-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 “reasons”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- independent
independent
98,752 corpus weight
- master
master
98,751 corpus weight
- none
none
98,750 corpus weight
- reasons
reasons
98,749 corpus weight
- Russia
Russia
98,748 corpus weight
- ship
ship
98,747 corpus weight
What this shows “reasons” 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 | reasons |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹiː.zənz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “reasons”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around reasons (IPA /ˈɹiː.zənz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,252 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for reasons, with forms such as "erasons", "raesons", and "reaosns". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "regions", "reason", "reasoned", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is reasons, spelled R-E-A-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1plural of reason
- 2A written judgment or ruling by a judge or similar decision maker.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reasons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The appellants sought at the hearing of the appeal, for the first time, to file the reasons of the Federal High Court of Nigeria for dismissing the respondent's motion to strike. Although the reasons were released February 2, 2015 and the motion before Perell J. was heard March 2, 2015, the reasons were not before the motion judge.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erasons
- raesons
- reaosns
- reasnos
- reasonns
- reasonss
- reasosn
- reassons
- resaons
- rreasons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reasons - 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 "reasons", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).