cantilevered
/ˈkæntɪˌlivə(ɹ)d/
"cantilevered" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cantilevered” is uncommon English (frequency #70,536 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,536
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of cantilever
Corpus desk
Index EN-cantilevered · cantilevered · English
cantilevered · rank #70,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,536
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH candlelit
Nearest frequency peer: candlelit (-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 “cantilevered”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- campylobact…
campylobacter
29,468 corpus weight
- Candide
Candide
29,467 corpus weight
- candlelit
candlelit
29,466 corpus weight
- cantilevered
cantilevered
29,465 corpus weight
- Capetown
Capetown
29,463 corpus weight
- carabinieri
carabinieri
29,462 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cantilevered” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cantilevered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkæntɪˌlivə(ɹ)d/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #70,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cantilevered” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cantilevered is uncommon English at frequency #70,536 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkæntɪˌlivə(ɹ)d/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of cantilever".
cantilevered has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 cantilevered, spelled C-A-N-T-I-L-E-V-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of cantilever
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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