Which to use
“skirt” is a noun and “skirted” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,609
- “skirt” frequency rank
- #49,637
- “skirted” frequency rank
- 57246
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | skirt | skirted |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs. | Wearing a skirt. |
Letter map: skirt vs skirted
Shared letters muted; letters that set skirt and skirted apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. skirt runs 5 letters (CCVCC) against skirted's 7 (CCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for skirt / skirted
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: skirt is anoun and skirtedanadjective. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “skirt” sits inside “skirted”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57246, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
skirt is recorded at frequency rank #7,609, classified as anoun, pronounced /skɜːt/. skirted is at rank #49,637, 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 57246, this pair ranks #120,618 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of skirt vs skirted
Shared letters: ikrst. Private to "skirt": -. Private to "skirted": de.
"skirt" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC · "skirted" · 7 letters · shape CCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "skirt" and "skirted" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "skirt" vs "skirted" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Pair "skirt" vs "skirted" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "skirt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "skirted" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #120,618 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "skirt" and "skirted" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "skirted vs stilted". 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 #120,618 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.