transpires
"transpires" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“transpires” is uncommon English (frequency #53,307 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,307
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of transpire
Corpus desk
Index EN-transpires · transpires · English
transpires · rank #53,307 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,307
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH toki
Nearest frequency peer: toki (-3 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 “transpires”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tiana
Tiana
46,699 corpus weight
- Tikrit
Tikrit
46,698 corpus weight
- toki
toki
46,697 corpus weight
- transpires
transpires
46,694 corpus weight
- trop
trop
46,691 corpus weight
- Trowbridge
Trowbridge
46,690 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “transpires” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transpires |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “transpires” in English
Rare enough to double-check
transpires is uncommon English at frequency #53,307 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of transpire".
Zero misspellings are on record for transpires in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is transpires, spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of transpire
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how transpires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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