winds
/wɪndz/
"winds" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“winds” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,998. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,998
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of wind
Corpus desk
Index EN-winds · winds · English
winds · rank #4,998 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,998
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH woke
Nearest frequency peer: woke (+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 “winds”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- unemployment
unemployment
95,007 corpus weight
- unity
unity
95,006 corpus weight
- useless
useless
95,005 corpus weight
- winds
winds
95,003 corpus weight
- woke
woke
95,002 corpus weight
- WTF
WTF
95,001 corpus weight
What this shows “winds” 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 | winds |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /wɪndz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “winds”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around winds (IPA /wɪndz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,998 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of wind".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for winds, with forms such as "iwnds", "widns", and "windds". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wis", "wine", "wins", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is winds, spelled W-I-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1plural of wind
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwnds
- widns
- windds
- windss
- winnds
- winsd
- wnids
- wwinds
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of winds - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).