aspirated

adj

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"aspirated" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“aspirated” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,318. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,318
frequency rank, English
3,931
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronounced with an audible breath, a brief expulsion of air at the end of the sound.

Corpus desk

Index EN-aspirated · aspirated · English

aspirated · rank #46,318 · 13 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,318
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,931
  • PHOTO-FINISH Atchison

Nearest frequency peer: Atchison (+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 “aspirated”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “aspirated” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for aspirated
PropertyValue
Headwordaspirated
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters9
Frequency rank#46,318
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “aspirated”

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).aspiratedlands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Same rarity band neighbours include “Atchison” (#46,319), “arranger” (#46,316), “ATR” (#46,320). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “aspirated” is #46,318. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around aspirated, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,318 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for aspirated, with forms such as "apsirated", "asiprated", and "aspiarted". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is aspirated, spelled A-S-P-I-R-A-T-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pronounced with an audible breath, a brief expulsion of air at the end of the sound.
  2. 2
    In French, describing an initial letter h which, though silent, does not permit liaison or elision with the preceding word.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how aspirated appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. In English, word-initial single voiceless consonants are aspirated, so that pit is pronounced [pʰɪt] but spit is pronounced [spɪt].
  2. The h in haine is aspirated, so one says la haine, not l'haine.

This word in other languages

aspirado(Español)aspiré(Français)aspiriert(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apsirated
  • asiprated
  • aspiarted
  • aspiraetd
  • aspiratde
  • aspiratedd
  • aspiratted
  • aspirrated
  • aspirtaed
  • asppirated
  • aspriated
  • asspirated
  • sapirated

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aspirated - 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.

apsirated2asiprated2aspiarted2aspiraetd2aspiratde2aspiratedd1aspiratted1aspirrated1
Edit distance from "aspirated"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aspirated"?
"aspirated" is spelled A-S-P-I-R-A-T-E-D.
What does "aspirated" mean?
As an adjective, "aspirated" means: Pronounced with an audible breath, a brief expulsion of air at the end of the sound.
What are common misspellings of "aspirated"?
Common misspellings include "apsirated", "asiprated", "aspiarted", "aspiraetd", "aspiratde". The correct spelling is "aspirated".
What language does "aspirated" come from?
"aspirated" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aspirated", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list