slants
/ˈslænts/
"slants" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slants” is uncommon English (frequency #77,203 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,203
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of slant
Corpus desk
Index EN-slants · slants · English
slants · rank #77,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,203
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH slavishly
Nearest frequency peer: slavishly (+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 “slants”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- siltstone
siltstone
22,801 corpus weight
- slants
slants
22,798 corpus weight
- slavishly
slavishly
22,797 corpus weight
- SLD
SLD
22,796 corpus weight
- sleepwalker
sleepwalker
22,795 corpus weight
- sleuths
sleuths
22,794 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “slants” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slants |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈslænts/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “slants” in English
Rare enough to double-check
slants is uncommon English at frequency #77,203 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈslænts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of slant".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for slants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 slants, spelled S-L-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of slant
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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