awed
/ɔːd/
"awed" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“awed” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,213) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,213
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of awe
Corpus desk
Index EN-awed · awed · English
awed · rank #45,213 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,213
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH asthmatic
Nearest frequency peer: asthmatic (-2 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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “awed”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- applesauce
applesauce
54,794 corpus weight
- assuage
assuage
54,791 corpus weight
- asthmatic
asthmatic
54,790 corpus weight
- awed
awed
54,788 corpus weight
- Balmoral
Balmoral
54,784 corpus weight
- barreled
barreled
54,782 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “awed” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | awed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɔːd/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “awed”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for awed is neighbouring look-alikes ("aye", "axe", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /ɔːd/. Frequency #45,213 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of awe".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for awed, with forms such as "aewd", "awedd", and "awwed". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aye", "axe", "aww", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is awed, spelled A-W-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of awe
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aewd
- awedd
- awwed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of awed - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).