canted
"canted" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“canted” is uncommon English (frequency #88,174 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,174
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having angles; angled.
Corpus desk
Index EN-canted · canted · English
canted · rank #88,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,174
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH candidiasis
Nearest frequency peer: candidiasis (-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 “canted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- callsign
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11,832 corpus weight
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candidiasis
11,829 corpus weight
- canted
canted
11,827 corpus weight
- capsular
capsular
11,824 corpus weight
- Caracalla
Caracalla
11,823 corpus weight
- cargos
cargos
11,822 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “canted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “canted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
canted is uncommon English at frequency #88,174 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for canted in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 canted, spelled C-A-N-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having angles; angled.
- 2Inclined at an angle to something else; sloping.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how canted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a-six canted bolt head
a canted window
This word in other languages
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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