Sharples
/ʃɑːpəlz/
"sharples" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Sharples” is uncommon English (frequency #74,498 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,498
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sharples · Sharples · English
Sharples · rank #74,498 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,498
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shekel
Nearest frequency peer: shekel (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “Sharples”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sela
Sela
25,510 corpus weight
- sensu
sensu
25,508 corpus weight
- Sharples
Sharples
25,503 corpus weight
- shekel
shekel
25,502 corpus weight
- shul
shul
25,499 corpus weight
- sidereal
sidereal
25,496 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Sharples” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sharples |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ʃɑːpəlz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,498 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Sharples” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Sharples is uncommon English at frequency #74,498 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ʃɑːpəlz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Sharples in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Sharples, spelled S-H-A-R-P-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2A suburb of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD7111).
- 3An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.
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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