scraps
/skɹæps/
"scraps" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scraps” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,479. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,479
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of scrap
Corpus desk
Index EN-scraps · scraps · English
scraps · rank #17,479 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,479
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH scramble
Nearest frequency peer: scramble (-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 “scraps”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Samson
Samson
82,526 corpus weight
- satin
satin
82,525 corpus weight
- scatter
scatter
82,524 corpus weight
- scramble
scramble
82,523 corpus weight
- scraps
scraps
82,522 corpus weight
- semantics
semantics
82,520 corpus weight
What this shows “scraps” 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 | scraps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /skɹæps/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “scraps”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around scraps (IPA /skɹæps/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,479 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of scrap".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for scraps, with forms such as "csraps", "scarps", and "sccraps". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "strap", "scrip", "script", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is scraps, spelled S-C-R-A-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of scrap
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csraps
- scarps
- sccraps
- scrapps
- scrapss
- scrasp
- scrpas
- scrraps
- srcaps
- sscraps
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scraps - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).