attired
"attired" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“attired” is uncommon English (frequency #61,975 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,975
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clothed, dressed, wearing clothing, often of a specified type.
Corpus desk
Index EN-attired · attired · English
attired · rank #61,975 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,975
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH atopic
Nearest frequency peer: atopic (-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 “attired”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ashura
Ashura
38,030 corpus weight
- aspartate
aspartate
38,029 corpus weight
- atopic
atopic
38,027 corpus weight
- attired
attired
38,026 corpus weight
- Ayre
Ayre
38,023 corpus weight
- bacteriology
bacteriology
38,020 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “attired” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attired |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “attired” in English
Rare enough to double-check
attired is uncommon English at frequency #61,975 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for attired in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is attired, spelled A-T-T-I-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Clothed, dressed, wearing clothing, often of a specified type.
- 2Said of the horns of an animal when they are of a different tincture to its head.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how attired appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This was at the height of the Age of Fans; these indispensable arms, as constant accompaniment to an attired lady as a sword to a well-equipped gentleman, were often much more costly than this, being generally curiously mounted, and richly adorned.
Never did such an attired pair dance together, I ween.
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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