acclimated
/ˈæk.lɪm.eɪt.əd/
"acclimated" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“acclimated” is uncommon English (frequency #54,593 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,593
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - accustomed, adapted or hardened to some environment
Corpus desk
Index EN-acclimated · acclimated · English
acclimated · rank #54,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,593
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Aber
Nearest frequency peer: Aber (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “acclimated”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- abbé
abbé
45,410 corpus weight
- Aber
Aber
45,409 corpus weight
- acclimated
acclimated
45,408 corpus weight
- acquiescence
acquiescence
45,407 corpus weight
- ACU
ACU
45,406 corpus weight
- Adamawa
Adamawa
45,405 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “acclimated” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acclimated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈæk.lɪm.eɪt.əd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “acclimated” in English
Rare enough to double-check
acclimated is uncommon English at frequency #54,593 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈæk.lɪm.eɪt.əd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "accustomed, adapted or hardened to some environment".
Zero misspellings are on record for acclimated in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 acclimated, spelled A-C-C-L-I-M-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1accustomed, adapted or hardened to some environment
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how acclimated appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to grow acclimated to those kooky Americans
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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