alighted
"alighted" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alighted” is uncommon English (frequency #75,607 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,607
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of alight
Corpus desk
Index EN-alighted · alighted · English
alighted · rank #75,607 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,607
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Aldgate
Nearest frequency peer: Aldgate (-3 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 “alighted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- aik
aik
24,401 corpus weight
- Akiyama
Akiyama
24,400 corpus weight
- Aldgate
Aldgate
24,397 corpus weight
- alighted
alighted
24,394 corpus weight
- Amida
Amida
24,390 corpus weight
- analyser
analyser
24,388 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “alighted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alighted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,607 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “alighted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alighted is uncommon English at frequency #75,607 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of alight".
alighted doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is alighted, spelled A-L-I-G-H-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of alight
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alighted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He stopped the carriage and alighted.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).