tastes
/teɪsts/
"tastes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tastes” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,302. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,302
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of taste
Corpus desk
Index EN-tastes · tastes · English
tastes · rank #6,302 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,302
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH subtle
Nearest frequency peer: subtle (-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 “tastes”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- starring
starring
93,702 corpus weight
- subtle
subtle
93,700 corpus weight
- tastes
tastes
93,699 corpus weight
- throws
throws
93,698 corpus weight
- toll
toll
93,697 corpus weight
- tooth
tooth
93,696 corpus weight
What this shows “tastes” 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 | tastes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /teɪsts/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tastes”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around tastes (IPA /teɪsts/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,302 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of taste".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for tastes, with forms such as "atstes", "tasets", and "tasstes". 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, "tate", "tests", "taxes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 tastes, spelled T-A-S-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of taste
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tastes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atstes
- tasets
- tasstes
- tastess
- tastse
- tasttes
- tatses
- ttastes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tastes - 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 "tastes", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).