rubes
/ɹuːbz/
"rubes" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rubes” is uncommon English (frequency #73,600 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,600
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of rube
Corpus desk
Index EN-rubes · rubes · English
rubes · rank #73,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,600
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rosyth
Nearest frequency peer: Rosyth (-3 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 “rubes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Riemannian
Riemannian
26,408 corpus weight
- Ritu
Ritu
26,407 corpus weight
- Rosyth
Rosyth
26,404 corpus weight
- rubes
rubes
26,401 corpus weight
- sacredness
sacredness
26,397 corpus weight
- safehouse
safehouse
26,396 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “rubes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rubes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɹuːbz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “rubes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
rubes is uncommon English at frequency #73,600 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɹuːbz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of rube".
rubes has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is rubes, spelled R-U-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of rube
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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