caned
/keɪnd/
"caned" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“caned” is uncommon English (frequency #76,616 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,616
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of cane
Corpus desk
Index EN-caned · caned · English
caned · rank #76,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,616
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH caking
Nearest frequency peer: caking (-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 “caned”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cadherin
cadherin
23,390 corpus weight
- caird
caird
23,389 corpus weight
- caking
caking
23,388 corpus weight
- caned
caned
23,385 corpus weight
- Carlene
Carlene
23,381 corpus weight
- Carpentier
Carpentier
23,380 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “caned” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caned |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /keɪnd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “caned” in English
Rare enough to double-check
caned is uncommon English at frequency #76,616 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /keɪnd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of cane".
caned doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 caned, spelled C-A-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of cane
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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