snopes
"snopes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“snopes” is uncommon English (frequency #63,259 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,259
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-snopes · snopes · English
snopes · rank #63,259 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,259
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH snipped
Nearest frequency peer: snipped (-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 “snopes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- snatcher
snatcher
36,745 corpus weight
- snipped
snipped
36,743 corpus weight
- snopes
snopes
36,742 corpus weight
- softie
softie
36,741 corpus weight
- souk
souk
36,739 corpus weight
- spearing
spearing
36,737 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “snopes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snopes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “snopes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
snopes is uncommon English at frequency #63,259 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy.".
No misspelling variants are generated for snopes in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is snopes, spelled S-N-O-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how snopes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heh heh you got me. No, I didn't Snopes it before replying. Damn. Shame on me.
Why do people insist on "re-SNOPESing" things that have been proven time and time again are urban legends?
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
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