sacrifices
/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪ.sɪz/
"sacrifices" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sacrifices” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,929. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,929
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of sacrifice
Corpus desk
Index EN-sacrifices · sacrifices · English
sacrifices · rank #10,929 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,929
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH rug
Nearest frequency peer: rug (-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 “sacrifices”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Rory
Rory
89,075 corpus weight
- Royals
Royals
89,074 corpus weight
- rug
rug
89,073 corpus weight
- sacrifices
sacrifices
89,072 corpus weight
- Salvador
Salvador
89,071 corpus weight
- scanning
scanning
89,070 corpus weight
What this shows “sacrifices” 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 | sacrifices |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪ.sɪz/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sacrifices”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around sacrifices (IPA /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪ.sɪz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,929 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of sacrifice".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for sacrifices, with forms such as "ascrifices", "saccrifices", and "sacirfices". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sacrifice", "sacrificed", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is sacrifices, spelled S-A-C-R-I-F-I-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of sacrifice
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ascrifices
- saccrifices
- sacirfices
- sacrfiices
- sacrifcies
- sacriffices
- sacrificces
- sacrificess
- sacrificse
- sacrifiecs
- sacriifces
- sacrrifices
- sarcifices
- scarifices
- ssacrifices
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sacrifices - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "sacrifices", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).