becalmed
"becalmed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“becalmed” is uncommon English (frequency #90,189 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,189
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Unable to move due to lack of wind.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | becalmed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “becalmed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
becalmed is uncommon English at frequency #90,189 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unable to move due to lack of wind.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for becalmed in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is becalmed, spelled B-E-C-A-L-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1Unable to move due to lack of wind.
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 “becalmed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-E-C-A-L-M-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.