bulged
/bʌldʒd/
"bulged" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bulged” is uncommon English (frequency #90,234 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,234
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of bulge
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bulged |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /bʌldʒd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bulged” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bulged is uncommon English at frequency #90,234 among 31,241 “B” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /bʌldʒd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of bulge".
bulged has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is bulged, spelled B-U-L-G-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of bulge
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 “bulged”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-U-L-G-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.