ached
/eɪkt/
"ached" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ached” is uncommon English (frequency #58,490 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,490
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of ache
Corpus desk
Index EN-ached · ached · English
ached · rank #58,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,490
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH acolyte
Nearest frequency peer: acolyte (+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 “ached”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- abet
abet
41,515 corpus weight
- ached
ached
41,511 corpus weight
- acolyte
acolyte
41,510 corpus weight
- Adela
Adela
41,509 corpus weight
- adorably
adorably
41,508 corpus weight
- adulterated
adulterated
41,507 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ached” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ached |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /eɪkt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ached” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ached is uncommon English at frequency #58,490 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /eɪkt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of ache".
ached has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 ached, spelled A-C-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of ache
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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