biked
"biked" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“biked” is uncommon English (frequency #65,729 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,729
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of bike
Corpus desk
Index EN-biked · biked · English
biked · rank #65,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,729
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Besson
Nearest frequency peer: Besson (-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 “biked”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Belgravia
Belgravia
34,275 corpus weight
- bergamot
bergamot
34,274 corpus weight
- Besson
Besson
34,273 corpus weight
- biked
biked
34,272 corpus weight
- bilirubin
bilirubin
34,271 corpus weight
- billionth
billionth
34,270 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “biked” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | biked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “biked” in English
Rare enough to double-check
biked is uncommon English at frequency #65,729 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of bike".
biked doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is biked, spelled B-I-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of bike
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how biked appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I biked to school yesterday.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).