budged
/bʌd͡ʒd/
"budged" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“budged” is uncommon English (frequency #77,486 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,486
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of budge
Corpus desk
Index EN-budged · budged · English
budged · rank #77,486 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,486
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bucko
Nearest frequency peer: bucko (-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 “budged”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- brickman
brickman
22,521 corpus weight
- bucko
bucko
22,516 corpus weight
- budged
budged
22,515 corpus weight
- buffoonery
buffoonery
22,514 corpus weight
- buncombe
buncombe
22,512 corpus weight
- bureaux
bureaux
22,509 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “budged” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | budged |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bʌd͡ʒd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “budged” in English
Rare enough to double-check
budged is uncommon English at frequency #77,486 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /bʌd͡ʒd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of budge".
No generated misspelling entries exist for budged in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 budged, spelled B-U-D-G-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of budge
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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