accosted
"accosted" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“accosted” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,492. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,492
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Supported on both sides by other charges.
Corpus desk
Index EN-accosted · accosted · English
accosted · rank #43,492 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,492
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH abdicate
Nearest frequency peer: abdicate (-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 “accosted”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- AAU
AAU
56,512 corpus weight
- abalone
abalone
56,511 corpus weight
- abdicate
abdicate
56,510 corpus weight
- accosted
accosted
56,509 corpus weight
- adjournment
adjournment
56,508 corpus weight
- affable
affable
56,506 corpus weight
What this shows “accosted” 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 | accosted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “accosted”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around accosted, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,492 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for accosted, with forms such as "accosetd", "accossted", and "accostde". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "accused", "accounted", "accepted", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is accosted, spelled A-C-C-O-S-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Supported on both sides by other charges.
- 2Side by side.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accosted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Capadose (Amsterdam, The Hague): Divided, 1, sinople, two small angels proper, affronté in chief, holding together a mantle gules, lined ermine, in point a beehive or, put upon a terrace proper; the beehive accosted by four bees or, and accompanied by two other bees or, brochant upon the terrace underneath the beehive; [...]
Barrett, impaling, A chevron between six rams accosted, counter-tripping, two, two, and two (Harman of Rendlesham and […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accosetd
- accossted
- accostde
- accostedd
- accostted
- accotsed
- accsoted
- acocsted
- acosted
- cacosted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of accosted - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "accosted", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).