belittled
"belittled" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“belittled” is uncommon English (frequency #53,397 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,397
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of belittle
Corpus desk
Index EN-belittled · belittled · English
belittled · rank #53,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,397
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Belton
Nearest frequency peer: Belton (+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 “belittled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- barber's
barber's
46,608 corpus weight
- beachside
beachside
46,606 corpus weight
- belittled
belittled
46,604 corpus weight
- Belton
Belton
46,603 corpus weight
- benediction
benediction
46,602 corpus weight
- betrothal
betrothal
46,601 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “belittled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | belittled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #53,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “belittled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
belittled is uncommon English at frequency #53,397 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of belittle".
No misspelling variants are generated for belittled in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 belittled, spelled B-E-L-I-T-T-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of belittle
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how belittled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We both are the belittled human race , One as compared with God and one with space . I had thought ours the more profound disgrace ; But doubtless this was only my conceit . The cloister and the observatory saint Take comfort in about the same complaint. So science and religion really meet.[…]
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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