tunes
/tjuːns/
"tunes" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tunes” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,413. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,413
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of tune
Corpus desk
Index EN-tunes · tunes · English
tunes · rank #9,413 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,413
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tracy
Nearest frequency peer: Tracy (-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 “tunes”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- token
token
90,591 corpus weight
- tornado
tornado
90,590 corpus weight
- Tracy
Tracy
90,589 corpus weight
- tunes
tunes
90,588 corpus weight
- twilight
twilight
90,586 corpus weight
- unprecedent…
unprecedented
90,585 corpus weight
What this shows “tunes” 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 | tunes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tjuːns/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tunes”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tunes (IPA /tjuːns/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,413 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of tune".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tunes, with forms such as "tnues", "ttunes", and "tuens". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tyne", "tung", "types", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 tunes, spelled T-U-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of tune
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tnues
- ttunes
- tuens
- tuness
- tunnes
- tunse
- utnes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tunes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "tunes", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).