awakened
/əˈweɪkənd/
"awakened" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“awakened” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,527. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,527
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of awaken
Corpus desk
Index EN-awakened · awakened · English
awakened · rank #19,527 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,527
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Austen
Nearest frequency peer: Austen (-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 “awakened”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- attentive
attentive
80,477 corpus weight
- auntie
auntie
80,476 corpus weight
- Austen
Austen
80,475 corpus weight
- awakened
awakened
80,474 corpus weight
- ballpark
ballpark
80,473 corpus weight
- beak
beak
80,471 corpus weight
What this shows “awakened” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | awakened |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈweɪkənd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “awakened”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around awakened (IPA /əˈweɪkənd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,527 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of awaken".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for awakened, with forms such as "aawkened", "awaekned", and "awakeend". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "awaken", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is awakened, spelled A-W-A-K-E-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of awaken
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how awakened appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aawkened
- awaekned
- awakeend
- awakende
- awakenedd
- awakenned
- awakkened
- awakneed
- awkaened
- awwakened
- waakened
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of awakened - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "awakened", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).