trials
/ˈtɹaɪəlz/
"trials" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“trials” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,198. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,198
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of trial
Corpus desk
Index EN-trials · trials · English
trials · rank #4,198 · 8 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,198
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Ukraine
Nearest frequency peer: Ukraine (+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 “trials”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tissue
tissue
95,806 corpus weight
- trailer
trailer
95,805 corpus weight
- trials
trials
95,803 corpus weight
- Ukraine
Ukraine
95,802 corpus weight
- underground
underground
95,801 corpus weight
- versus
versus
95,800 corpus weight
What this shows “trials” 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 | trials |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɹaɪəlz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “trials”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around trials (IPA /ˈtɹaɪəlz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,198 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of trial".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for trials, with forms such as "rtials", "tirals", and "trialls". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "tris", "tries", "trips", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 trials, spelled T-R-I-A-L-S.
Definition
- 1plural of trial
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtials
- tirals
- trialls
- trialss
- triasl
- trilas
- trrials
- ttrials
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trials - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "trials", 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).