cased
/keɪst/
"cased" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cased” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,121
- 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 case
Corpus desk
Index EN-cased · cased · English
cased · rank #48,121 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,121
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH catamaran
Nearest frequency peer: catamaran (+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 “cased”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cannery
cannery
51,887 corpus weight
- captioning
captioning
51,884 corpus weight
- carcinogen
carcinogen
51,883 corpus weight
- cased
cased
51,880 corpus weight
- catamaran
catamaran
51,879 corpus weight
- cates
cates
51,878 corpus weight
What this shows “cased” 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 | cased |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /keɪst/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #48,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cased”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around cased (IPA /keɪst/), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,121 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of case".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for cased, with forms such as "acsed", "caesd", and "casde". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CSE", "cash", "cast", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is cased, spelled C-A-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of case
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acsed
- caesd
- casde
- casedd
- cassed
- ccased
- csaed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cased - 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
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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).