caressed
/kəˈɹɛst/
"caressed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“caressed” is uncommon English (frequency #52,208 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,208
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of caress
Corpus desk
Index EN-caressed · caressed · English
caressed · rank #52,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,208
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cap'n
Nearest frequency peer: cap'n (-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 “caressed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Cammy
Cammy
47,796 corpus weight
- campy
campy
47,795 corpus weight
- cap'n
cap'n
47,794 corpus weight
- caressed
caressed
47,793 corpus weight
- caseload
caseload
47,791 corpus weight
- cassia
cassia
47,790 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “caressed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caressed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kəˈɹɛst/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “caressed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
caressed is uncommon English at frequency #52,208 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kəˈɹɛst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of caress".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for caressed, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 caressed, spelled C-A-R-E-S-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of caress
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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