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Isn't that an interesting error? The words don't sound alike at all, but they kind of do look alike: they both have three letters, two of which are the same, in the same positions.
Poppy has a lot to sort out in the 'sound house' she in building in her mind, that is, the phonologies of the languages she will be living in for the rest of her life.
The brute memorization of a list of spellings that require an < -es > variant is both inelegant (no need to duplicate <z> and <zz>, for example) and incomplete.
As I reminded you at the end of the Starting Points post, remember that we're aiming for conceptual depth and understanding, not for perfect accuracy all the time in spelling.