slides
/slaɪdz/
"slides" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slides” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,959. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,959
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of slide
Corpus desk
Index EN-slides · slides · English
slides · rank #9,959 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,959
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sims
Nearest frequency peer: Sims (-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 “slides”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- shouted
shouted
90,046 corpus weight
- Simmons
Simmons
90,044 corpus weight
- Sims
Sims
90,043 corpus weight
- slides
slides
90,042 corpus weight
- sociology
sociology
90,041 corpus weight
- Somerset
Somerset
90,040 corpus weight
What this shows “slides” 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 | slides |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /slaɪdz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “slides”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around slides (IPA /slaɪdz/), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,959 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of slide".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for slides, with forms such as "lsides", "sildes", and "sldies". 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, "spies", "slips", "slime", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 slides, spelled S-L-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of slide
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lsides
- sildes
- sldies
- sliddes
- slidess
- slidse
- slieds
- sllides
- sslides
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of slides - 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 "slides", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).