skirts
/skɝts/
"skirts" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skirts” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,612. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,612
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of skirt
Corpus desk
Index EN-skirts · skirts · English
skirts · rank #13,612 · 10 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,612
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH skipping
Nearest frequency peer: skipping (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “skirts”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- shortest
shortest
86,392 corpus weight
- Sid
Sid
86,391 corpus weight
- skipping
skipping
86,390 corpus weight
- skirts
skirts
86,389 corpus weight
- sliced
sliced
86,388 corpus weight
- springer
springer
86,386 corpus weight
What this shows “skirts” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | skirts |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /skɝts/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “skirts”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around skirts (IPA /skɝts/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,612 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of skirt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for skirts, with forms such as "ksirts", "sikrts", and "skirrts". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "skit", "suits", "sorts", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is skirts, spelled S-K-I-R-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of skirt
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ksirts
- sikrts
- skirrts
- skirst
- skirtss
- skirtts
- skitrs
- skkirts
- skrits
- sskirts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of skirts - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "skirts", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).