shames
/ʃeɪmz/
"shames" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shames” is uncommon English (frequency #50,224 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,224
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of shame
Corpus desk
Index EN-shames · shames · English
shames · rank #50,224 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,224
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shaheed
Nearest frequency peer: shaheed (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shames”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Selwyn
Selwyn
49,782 corpus weight
- semaphore
semaphore
49,781 corpus weight
- shaheed
shaheed
49,779 corpus weight
- shames
shames
49,777 corpus weight
- shiba
shiba
49,774 corpus weight
- shitter
shitter
49,772 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shames” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shames |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʃeɪmz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shames” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shames is uncommon English at frequency #50,224 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ʃeɪmz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of shame".
Zero misspellings are on record for shames in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 shames, spelled S-H-A-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of shame
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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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.