buttressed
"buttressed" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“buttressed” is uncommon English (frequency #66,534 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,534
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having buttresses or supports.
Corpus desk
Index EN-buttressed · buttressed · English
buttressed · rank #66,534 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,534
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH burry
Nearest frequency peer: burry (-2 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 “buttressed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bullocks
bullocks
33,472 corpus weight
- burry
burry
33,469 corpus weight
- buttressed
buttressed
33,467 corpus weight
- cablevision
cablevision
33,465 corpus weight
- Caddo
Caddo
33,464 corpus weight
- Californica…
Californication
33,463 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “buttressed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | buttressed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “buttressed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
buttressed is uncommon English at frequency #66,534 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having buttresses or supports.".
buttressed has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 buttressed, spelled B-U-T-T-R-E-S-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having buttresses or supports.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how buttressed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Only the buttressed outer walls still stood.
[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
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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