cared
/kɛɹd/
"cared" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cared” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,942. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,942
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of care
Corpus desk
Index EN-cared · cared · English
cared · rank #5,942 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,942
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Catherine
Nearest frequency peer: Catherine (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “cared”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- bankruptcy
bankruptcy
94,062 corpus weight
- canon
canon
94,061 corpus weight
- cared
cared
94,059 corpus weight
- Catherine
Catherine
94,058 corpus weight
- chains
chains
94,057 corpus weight
- closure
closure
94,056 corpus weight
What this shows “cared” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cared |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kɛɹd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cared”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around cared (IPA /kɛɹd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,942 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of care".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cared, with forms such as "acred", "caerd", and "carde". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "case", "cars", "core", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cared, spelled C-A-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of care
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acred
- caerd
- carde
- caredd
- carred
- ccared
- craed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cared - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cared", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).