sleuths
/sluːθs/
"sleuths" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sleuths” is uncommon English (frequency #77,207 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,207
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of sleuth
Corpus desk
Index EN-sleuths · sleuths · English
sleuths · rank #77,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,207
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sleepwalker
Nearest frequency peer: sleepwalker (-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 “sleuths”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- slavishly
slavishly
22,797 corpus weight
- SLD
SLD
22,796 corpus weight
- sleepwalker
sleepwalker
22,795 corpus weight
- sleuths
sleuths
22,794 corpus weight
- slobbering
slobbering
22,793 corpus weight
- smallness
smallness
22,791 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sleuths” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sleuths |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sluːθs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sleuths” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sleuths is uncommon English at frequency #77,207 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /sluːθs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of sleuth".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sleuths, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is sleuths, spelled S-L-E-U-T-H-S.
Definition
- 1plural of sleuth
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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