Which to use
“piped” is a verb and “pitted” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #30,536
- “piped” frequency rank
- #23,631
- “pitted” frequency rank
- 54167
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | piped | pitted |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | simple past and past participle of pipe | Having a surface marked by pits; pockmarked or alveolate. |
Letter map: piped vs pitted
Shared letters muted; letters that set piped and pitted apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.
Part-of-speech tell for piped / pitted
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: piped is averb and pittedanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54167, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
piped is recorded at frequency rank #30,536, classified as averb, pronounced /paɪpt/. pitted is at rank #23,631, tagged as anadj.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 54167, this pair ranks #143,158 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of piped vs pitted
Shared letters: deip. Private to "piped": -. Private to "pitted": t.
"piped" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC · "pitted" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequency check: "piped" vs "pitted" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "piped" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "pitted" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #143,158 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "piped" and "pitted" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "piped vs plied". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #143,158 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.