accounted
/əˈkaʊntɪd/
"accounted" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“accounted” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,278. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,278
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of account
Corpus desk
Index EN-accounted · accounted · English
accounted · rank #9,278 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,278
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH accidental
Nearest frequency peer: accidental (-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 “accounted”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- wholly
wholly
90,726 corpus weight
- zoom
zoom
90,725 corpus weight
- accidental
accidental
90,724 corpus weight
- accounted
accounted
90,723 corpus weight
- addicted
addicted
90,722 corpus weight
- apollo
apollo
90,720 corpus weight
What this shows “accounted” 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 | accounted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈkaʊntɪd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “accounted”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around accounted (IPA /əˈkaʊntɪd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,278 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of account".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for accounted, with forms such as "acconuted", "accounetd", and "accounnted". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "accounts", "amounted", "account", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is accounted, spelled A-C-C-O-U-N-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of account
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acconuted
- accounetd
- accounnted
- accountde
- accountedd
- accountted
- accoutned
- accuonted
- acocunted
- acounted
- cacounted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of accounted - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).