tires
/ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)z/
"tires" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tires” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,848. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,848
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of tire.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tires · tires · English
tires · rank #6,848 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,848
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tin
Nearest frequency peer: tin (-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 “tires”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- threshold
threshold
93,156 corpus weight
- tin
tin
93,154 corpus weight
- tires
tires
93,153 corpus weight
- tribal
tribal
93,152 corpus weight
- tribes
tribes
93,151 corpus weight
- trunk
trunk
93,150 corpus weight
What this shows “tires” 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 | tires |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)z/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tires”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tires (IPA /ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)z/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,848 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of tire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tires, with forms such as "itres", "tiers", and "tiress". 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, "tre", "tree", "tits", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is tires, spelled T-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of tire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itres
- tiers
- tiress
- tirres
- tirse
- ttires
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tires - 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 "tires", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).