stinkers
"stinkers" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stinkers” is uncommon English (frequency #92,108 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,108
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of stinker
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stinkers |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stinkers” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
stinkers is uncommon English at frequency #92,108 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of stinker".
No generated misspelling entries exist for stinkers in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is stinkers, spelled S-T-I-N-K-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1plural of stinker
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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Using “stinkers”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-I-N-K-E-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.