wifes
"wifes" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wifes” is uncommon English (frequency #52,721 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,721
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of wife
Corpus desk
Index EN-wifes · wifes · English
wifes · rank #52,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,721
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH windowsill
Nearest frequency peer: windowsill (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “wifes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- westwards
westwards
47,283 corpus weight
- wifes
wifes
47,280 corpus weight
- windowsill
windowsill
47,279 corpus weight
- wining
wining
47,278 corpus weight
- wiry
wiry
47,277 corpus weight
- Wittenberg
Wittenberg
47,276 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wifes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wifes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wifes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wifes is uncommon English at frequency #52,721 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wifes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is wifes, spelled W-I-F-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of wife
- 2genitive of wife
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wifes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] for all that he had, was litle enough to ſatisfie his wifes ioynter.
And fearing leſt the torments he felt, might in ſome ſort entender his wifes heart;[…], he beſought her to be pleaſed he might be caried into the next chamber, which was accordingly performed.
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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