thems
"thems" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thems” is uncommon English (frequency #84,826 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,826
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - variant of those.
Corpus desk
Index EN-thems · thems · English
thems · rank #84,826 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,826
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Therrien
Nearest frequency peer: Therrien (+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 “thems”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tawney
Tawney
15,181 corpus weight
- terabyte
terabyte
15,178 corpus weight
- thems
thems
15,175 corpus weight
- Therrien
Therrien
15,174 corpus weight
- thiol
thiol
15,172 corpus weight
- Tolson
Tolson
15,168 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “thems” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thems |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “thems” in English
Rare enough to double-check
thems is uncommon English at frequency #84,826 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as apronoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "variant of those.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for thems, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is thems, spelled T-H-E-M-S.
Definition
- 1variant of those.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thems appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Catches in my craw, it does — thems as’ll let others do theys work for ’em, then come in to take what the gettin’s got."
After all, there's just some things in life a guy can't hope to change, even with the powder o' positive thinkin' that comes from livin' long enough and knowin' that thems what's got it ain't about to give none of it to thems what's not, [...]
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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