apportioned
"apportioned" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“apportioned” is uncommon English (frequency #55,242 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,242
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assigned as somebody's portion; allotted.
Corpus desk
Index EN-apportioned · apportioned · English
apportioned · rank #55,242 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,242
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Appalachians
Nearest frequency peer: Appalachians (-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 “apportioned”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Antiochus
Antiochus
44,762 corpus weight
- apace
apace
44,761 corpus weight
- Appalachians
Appalachians
44,760 corpus weight
- apportioned
apportioned
44,759 corpus weight
- ards
ards
44,758 corpus weight
- Arles
Arles
44,757 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “apportioned” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apportioned |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “apportioned” in English
Rare enough to double-check
apportioned is uncommon English at frequency #55,242 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Assigned as somebody's portion; allotted.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for apportioned, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is apportioned, spelled A-P-P-O-R-T-I-O-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1Assigned as somebody's portion; allotted.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how apportioned appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Here indeed was the witch wife's chance; and she was the more keen, for her master had warned her that this was her last chance. Either Ailie's soul would be his, or her auld wrunkled body and black heart would be flung from this pleasant world to their apportioned place.
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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