slacks
"slacks" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slacks” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,420
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Semi-formal trousers which are less formal than those that are part of a suit but nowadays are considered suitable casualwear in most offices. (Takes a plural verb even when referring to a single p...
Corpus desk
Index EN-slacks · slacks · English
slacks · rank #33,420 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,420
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH skeptic
Nearest frequency peer: skeptic (-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 “slacks”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- shrinkage
shrinkage
66,583 corpus weight
- skeptic
skeptic
66,582 corpus weight
- slacks
slacks
66,581 corpus weight
- sleeveless
sleeveless
66,580 corpus weight
- smalls
smalls
66,579 corpus weight
- smelting
smelting
66,578 corpus weight
What this shows “slacks” 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 | slacks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “slacks”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around slacks, anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,420 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Semi-formal trousers which are less formal than those that are part of a suit but nowadays are considered suitable casualwear in most offices. (Takes a plural verb even when referring to a single p...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for slacks, with forms such as "lsacks", "salcks", and "slaccks". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sucks", "stack", "socks", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is slacks, spelled S-L-A-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1Semi-formal trousers which are less formal than those that are part of a suit but nowadays are considered suitable casualwear in most offices. (Takes a plural verb even when referring to a single pair; may be referred to as a pair of slacks.)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how slacks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Discipline, that’s what we need. Discipline. How are we going to win the war without discipline? Do you know, sir, some of these fellows come on parade in slacks - so I’ve been told. Can’t expect to win a war that way. Slacks! My God!
Not five minutes later, Zooey, with his hair combed wet, stood wet, stood barefoot at the washbowl, wearing a pair of beltless dark-gray sharkskin slacks, a face towel across his bare shoulders.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lsacks
- salcks
- slaccks
- slackks
- slackss
- slacsk
- slakcs
- slcaks
- sllacks
- sslacks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of slacks - 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 "slacks", 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).