Scriptures
"scriptures" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Scriptures” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,209. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,209
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of Scripture
Corpus desk
Index EN-scriptures · Scriptures · English
Scriptures · rank #14,209 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,209
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH screenplay
Nearest frequency peer: screenplay (-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 “Scriptures”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Saturn
Saturn
85,795 corpus weight
- sawyer
sawyer
85,794 corpus weight
- screenplay
screenplay
85,793 corpus weight
- Scriptures
Scriptures
85,792 corpus weight
- sect
sect
85,791 corpus weight
- seismic
seismic
85,790 corpus weight
What this shows “Scriptures” 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 | Scriptures |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Scriptures”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Scriptures, anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,209 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of Scripture".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Scriptures, with forms such as "csriptures", "sccriptures", and "scirptures". 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, "Scripture", "scriptural", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Scriptures, spelled S-C-R-I-P-T-U-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of Scripture
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Scriptures appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But to this it may be sufficient to answer, that had not the Scriptures of plenary inspiration first been given, the others would never have been composed. They were all written by men to whom the compositions which are the Word of God […]
The Jew is not to reject the Christian Scriptures; - the Christian is to receive not only the Jewish and Christian Scriptures but also the Corân; - the Moslem is to accept and believe not only in the Corân, but in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures; […].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csriptures
- sccriptures
- scirptures
- scripptures
- scriptrues
- scripttures
- scriptuers
- scripturess
- scripturres
- scripturse
- scriputres
- scritpures
- scrpitures
- scrriptures
- srciptures
- sscriptures
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Scriptures - 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 "Scriptures", 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).