browed
/bɹaʊd/
"browed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“browed” is uncommon English (frequency #84,051 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,051
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a brow of the specified kind.
Corpus desk
Index EN-browed · browed · English
browed · rank #84,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,051
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Britannic
Nearest frequency peer: Britannic (-3 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 “browed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- borstal
borstal
15,958 corpus weight
- Bridgegate
Bridgegate
15,954 corpus weight
- Britannic
Britannic
15,953 corpus weight
- browed
browed
15,950 corpus weight
- burnishing
burnishing
15,946 corpus weight
- Byng
Byng
15,943 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “browed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | browed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bɹaʊd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “browed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
browed is uncommon English at frequency #84,051 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /bɹaʊd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having a brow of the specified kind.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for browed, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From brow + -ed. The correct English form is browed, spelled B-R-O-W-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a brow of the specified kind.
Etymology
From brow + -ed.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).