senses
/ˈsɛnsɪz/
"senses" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“senses” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,088. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,088
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of sense
Corpus desk
Index EN-senses · senses · English
senses · rank #8,088 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,088
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sculpture
Nearest frequency peer: sculpture (-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 “senses”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Romans
Romans
91,916 corpus weight
- runway
runway
91,915 corpus weight
- sculpture
sculpture
91,914 corpus weight
- senses
senses
91,913 corpus weight
- sensor
sensor
91,912 corpus weight
- Seth
Seth
91,911 corpus weight
What this shows “senses” 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 | senses |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɛnsɪz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “senses”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around senses (IPA /ˈsɛnsɪz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,088 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of sense".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for senses, with forms such as "esnses", "seness", and "sennses". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "SNES", "sexes", "series", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is senses, spelled S-E-N-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of sense
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- esnses
- seness
- sennses
- sensess
- sensses
- sesnes
- sneses
- ssenses
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of senses - 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 "senses", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).