scythes
/ˈsaɪðz/
"scythes" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scythes” is uncommon English (frequency #80,859 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,859
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of scythe
Corpus desk
Index EN-scythes · scythes · English
scythes · rank #80,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,859
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH seinen
Nearest frequency peer: seinen (+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 “scythes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Saxby
Saxby
19,151 corpus weight
- Schiavo
Schiavo
19,147 corpus weight
- schoolcraft
schoolcraft
19,146 corpus weight
- scythes
scythes
19,142 corpus weight
- seinen
seinen
19,139 corpus weight
- sertraline
sertraline
19,134 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “scythes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scythes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsaɪðz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “scythes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
scythes is uncommon English at frequency #80,859 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsaɪðz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of scythe".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for scythes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is scythes, spelled S-C-Y-T-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of scythe
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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