staves
/steɪvz/
"staves" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“staves” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,350. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,350
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of staff.
Corpus desk
Index EN-staves · staves · English
staves · rank #47,350 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,350
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH squalid
Nearest frequency peer: squalid (-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 “staves”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- spoofing
spoofing
52,654 corpus weight
- squalid
squalid
52,652 corpus weight
- staves
staves
52,651 corpus weight
- stillman
stillman
52,650 corpus weight
- Stockwell
Stockwell
52,649 corpus weight
- stringed
stringed
52,648 corpus weight
What this shows “staves” 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 | staves |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /steɪvz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “staves”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around staves (IPA /steɪvz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,350 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of staff.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for staves, with forms such as "satves", "sstaves", and "staevs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Steve", "stays", "stove", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is staves, spelled S-T-A-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of staff.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satves
- sstaves
- staevs
- stavess
- stavse
- stavves
- sttaves
- stvaes
- tsaves
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of staves - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "staves", 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).