sleeves
/sliːvz/
"sleeves" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sleeves” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,293. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,293
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of sleeve
Corpus desk
Index EN-sleeves · sleeves · English
sleeves · rank #11,293 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,293
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sidney
Nearest frequency peer: Sidney (-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 “sleeves”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- SB
SB
88,711 corpus weight
- Sidney
Sidney
88,709 corpus weight
- sleeves
sleeves
88,708 corpus weight
- songwriter
songwriter
88,707 corpus weight
- Sophia
Sophia
88,706 corpus weight
- spear
spear
88,705 corpus weight
What this shows “sleeves” 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 | sleeves |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sliːvz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sleeves”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sleeves (IPA /sliːvz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,293 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of sleeve".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sleeves, with forms such as "lseeves", "seleves", and "sleeevs". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "serves", "slaves", "sleeve", 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, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is sleeves, spelled S-L-E-E-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of sleeve
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lseeves
- seleves
- sleeevs
- sleevess
- sleevse
- sleevves
- slevees
- sleves
- slleeves
- ssleeves
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sleeves - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "sleeves", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).