yellows
"yellows" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yellows” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,659. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,659
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of yellow
Corpus desk
Index EN-yellows · yellows · English
yellows · rank #32,659 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,659
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Wray
Nearest frequency peer: Wray (-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 “yellows”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- woodhouse
woodhouse
67,345 corpus weight
- wormhole
wormhole
67,344 corpus weight
- Wray
Wray
67,343 corpus weight
- yellows
yellows
67,342 corpus weight
- Youngstown
Youngstown
67,341 corpus weight
- Zanzibar
Zanzibar
67,340 corpus weight
What this shows “yellows” 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 | yellows |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “yellows”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around yellows, averb. Corpus frequency is #32,659 among 366 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of yellow".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for yellows, with forms such as "eyllows", "yellosw", and "yellowss". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "yellow", "yellowish", 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 yellows, spelled Y-E-L-L-O-W-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of yellow
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yellows appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This paper yellows with age and gets brittle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eyllows
- yellosw
- yellowss
- yellowws
- yellwos
- yelolws
- yelows
- ylelows
- yyellows
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yellows - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).