roasts
/ɹəʊsts/
"roasts" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“roasts” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #38,137. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,137
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of roast
Corpus desk
Index EN-roasts · roasts · English
roasts · rank #38,137 · 8 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,137
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Reykjavik
Nearest frequency peer: Reykjavik (-2 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 “roasts”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- restock
restock
61,869 corpus weight
- Reykjavik
Reykjavik
61,866 corpus weight
- roasts
roasts
61,864 corpus weight
- rotunda
rotunda
61,862 corpus weight
- roundhouse
roundhouse
61,861 corpus weight
- rowed
rowed
61,860 corpus weight
What this shows “roasts” 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 | roasts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹəʊsts/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “roasts”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around roasts (IPA /ɹəʊsts/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,137 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of roast".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for roasts, with forms such as "orasts", "raosts", and "roassts". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Ross", "ROTS", "roots", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is roasts, spelled R-O-A-S-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of roast
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orasts
- raosts
- roassts
- roastss
- roastts
- roatss
- rosats
- rroasts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of roasts - 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 "roasts", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).