attired

adj

"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

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “attired” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for attired
PropertyValue
Headwordattired
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#61,975
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “attired” in English

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).attiredfalls in this rarity band:

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

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “atopic” (#61,974), “aspartate” (#61,972), “Ayre” (#61,978). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “attired” is #61,975. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Clothed, dressed, wearing clothing, often of a specified type.
  2. 2
    Said of the horns of an animal when they are of a different tincture to its head.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "attired"?
"attired" is spelled A-T-T-I-R-E-D.
What does "attired" mean?
As an adjective, "attired" means: Clothed, dressed, wearing clothing, often of a specified type.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list