attired
"attired" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“attired” is an uncommon English word, ranked #61,975 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #61,975
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Clothed, dressed, wearing clothing, often of a specified type.
| 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) |
Where “attired” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for attired is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #61,975 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “attired”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-T-T-I-R-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.