stinks
"stinks" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stinks” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,827. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,827
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chemistry (as a subject taught in school).
Corpus desk
Index EN-stinks · stinks · English
stinks · rank #22,827 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,827
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stead
Nearest frequency peer: stead (-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 “stinks”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sprite
sprite
77,177 corpus weight
- stagnation
stagnation
77,176 corpus weight
- stead
stead
77,175 corpus weight
- stinks
stinks
77,174 corpus weight
- structurally
structurally
77,173 corpus weight
- Suez
Suez
77,172 corpus weight
What this shows “stinks” 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 | stinks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “stinks”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around stinks, anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,827 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chemistry (as a subject taught in school).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for stinks, with forms such as "sitnks", "sstinks", and "stikns". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stint", "Stones", "stocks", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 stinks, spelled S-T-I-N-K-S.
Definition
- 1Chemistry (as a subject taught in school).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how stinks appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Very few boys could resist the attractions of mixing up chemicals, manufacturing unsavoury smells, and producing loud explosions. Bowney was an exception to the general rule, however; he never had studied "Stinks," […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sitnks
- sstinks
- stikns
- stinkks
- stinkss
- stinnks
- stinsk
- stniks
- sttinks
- tsinks
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stinks - 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 "stinks", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).