bellowed
/ˈbɛləʊd/
"bellowed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bellowed” is uncommon English (frequency #62,704 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,704
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of bellow
Corpus desk
Index EN-bellowed · bellowed · English
bellowed · rank #62,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,704
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bemoaning
Nearest frequency peer: bemoaning (+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 “bellowed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Basle
Basle
37,302 corpus weight
- Bateson
Bateson
37,301 corpus weight
- bellowed
bellowed
37,297 corpus weight
- bemoaning
bemoaning
37,296 corpus weight
- betrayer
betrayer
37,292 corpus weight
- Bettencourt
Bettencourt
37,291 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bellowed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bellowed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈbɛləʊd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bellowed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bellowed is uncommon English at frequency #62,704 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈbɛləʊd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of bellow".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bellowed, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 bellowed, spelled B-E-L-L-O-W-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of bellow
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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