bewildered
/bəˈwɪldɚd/
"bewildered" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bewildered” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #25,297 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #25,297
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bewildered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bəˈwɪldɚd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #25,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bewildered” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for bewildered is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bəˈwɪldɚd/. Corpus data places it at rank #25,297 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for bewildered, with forms such as "bbewildered", "beiwldered", and "bewidlered". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is bewildered, spelled B-E-W-I-L-D-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbewildered,beiwldered,bewidlered,bewilddered,bewildeerd,bewilderde,bewilderedd,bewilderred,bewildreed,bewiledred,bewilldered,bewlidered,bewwildered,bweildered,ebwildered
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bewildered - 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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Using “bewildered”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-E-W-I-L-D-E-R-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /bəˈwɪldɚd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.