assented
/əˈsɛntɪd/
"assented" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“assented” is uncommon English (frequency #83,009 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,009
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of assent
Corpus desk
Index EN-assented · assented · English
assented · rank #83,009 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,009
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH assail
Nearest frequency peer: assail (-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 “assented”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Armagnac
Armagnac
16,996 corpus weight
- Arslan
Arslan
16,995 corpus weight
- assail
assail
16,993 corpus weight
- assented
assented
16,992 corpus weight
- attitudinal
attitudinal
16,990 corpus weight
- Audie
Audie
16,989 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “assented” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | assented |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈsɛntɪd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “assented” in English
Rare enough to double-check
assented is uncommon English at frequency #83,009 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /əˈsɛntɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of assent".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for assented, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is assented, spelled A-S-S-E-N-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of assent
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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