sheeps
"sheeps" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sheeps” is uncommon English (frequency #76,327 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,327
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of sheep
Corpus desk
Index EN-sheeps · sheeps · English
sheeps · rank #76,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,327
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sheedy
Nearest frequency peer: Sheedy (-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 “sheeps”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shallowness
shallowness
23,678 corpus weight
- shayla
shayla
23,676 corpus weight
- Sheedy
Sheedy
23,675 corpus weight
- sheeps
sheeps
23,674 corpus weight
- Shikoku
Shikoku
23,672 corpus weight
- shiller
shiller
23,671 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sheeps” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sheeps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sheeps” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sheeps is uncommon English at frequency #76,327 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for sheeps in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is sheeps, spelled S-H-E-E-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of sheep
- 2genitive of sheep
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sheeps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
How many sheeps can you see?
THe firſt and moſt Ordinary Helpe is Stercoration. The Sheeps-Dung is one of the beſt; And next, the Dung of Kine: And thirdly, that of Horſes: […]
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).