shemales
/ˈʃi.meɪlz/
"shemales" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shemales” is uncommon English (frequency #63,246 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,246
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of shemale
Corpus desk
Index EN-shemales · shemales · English
shemales · rank #63,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,246
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shamus
Nearest frequency peer: shamus (-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 “shemales”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- septal
septal
36,762 corpus weight
- serially
serially
36,761 corpus weight
- shamus
shamus
36,756 corpus weight
- shemales
shemales
36,755 corpus weight
- Sherrill
Sherrill
36,754 corpus weight
- shoelace
shoelace
36,753 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shemales” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shemales |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃi.meɪlz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shemales” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shemales is uncommon English at frequency #63,246 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈʃi.meɪlz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of shemale".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for shemales, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is shemales, spelled S-H-E-M-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of shemale
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).