bribed
/bɹaɪbd/
"bribed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bribed” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #27,079 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #27,079
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of bribe
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bribed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bɹaɪbd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bribed” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for bribed is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bɹaɪbd/. Corpus data places it at rank #27,079 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "simple past and past participle of bribe".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for bribed, with forms such as "bbribed", "birbed", and "brbied". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "brie", "brief", "bride", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is bribed, spelled B-R-I-B-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of bribe
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbribed,birbed,brbied,bribbed,bribde,bribedd,briebd,brribed,rbibed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bribed - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “bribed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-R-I-B-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /bɹaɪbd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “brie” - see the side-by-side comparison. bribed vs brie
- 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.