waits
/weɪts/
"waits" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“waits” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,637. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,637
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of wait
Corpus desk
Index EN-waits · waits · English
waits · rank #11,637 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,637
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH visually
Nearest frequency peer: visually (-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 “waits”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- validation
validation
88,368 corpus weight
- vengeance
vengeance
88,367 corpus weight
- visually
visually
88,365 corpus weight
- waits
waits
88,364 corpus weight
- weighted
weighted
88,362 corpus weight
- Wii
Wii
88,361 corpus weight
What this shows “waits” 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 | waits |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /weɪts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “waits”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around waits (IPA /weɪts/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,637 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of wait".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for waits, with forms such as "awits", "waitss", and "waitts". 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, "was", "wit", "wat", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is waits, spelled W-A-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of wait
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awits
- waitss
- waitts
- watis
- wiats
- wwaits
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of waits - 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 "waits", 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).