skews
/skjuːz/
"skews" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skews” is uncommon English (frequency #68,641 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,641
- 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 skew
Corpus desk
Index EN-skews · skews · English
skews · rank #68,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,641
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH skinless
Nearest frequency peer: skinless (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “skews”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Shoop
Shoop
31,366 corpus weight
- signifier
signifier
31,364 corpus weight
- skews
skews
31,360 corpus weight
- skinless
skinless
31,358 corpus weight
- skydiver
skydiver
31,356 corpus weight
- smasher
smasher
31,355 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “skews” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skews |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /skjuːz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “skews” in English
Rare enough to double-check
skews is uncommon English at frequency #68,641 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /skjuːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of skew".
No generated misspelling entries exist for skews in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 skews, spelled S-K-E-W-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of skew
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "skews"?
What does "skews" mean?
How do you pronounce "skews"?
What language does "skews" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "skews", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).