chapped
/t͡ʃæpt/
"chapped" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chapped” is uncommon English (frequency #54,683 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,683
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chapped · chapped · English
chapped · rank #54,683 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,683
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chamois
Nearest frequency peer: chamois (-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 “chapped”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- centigrade
centigrade
45,322 corpus weight
- cerebellar
cerebellar
45,321 corpus weight
- chamois
chamois
45,319 corpus weight
- chapped
chapped
45,318 corpus weight
- chapstick
chapstick
45,317 corpus weight
- cheep
cheep
45,315 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chapped” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chapped |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /t͡ʃæpt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chapped” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chapped is uncommon English at frequency #54,683 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /t͡ʃæpt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for chapped in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 chapped, spelled C-H-A-P-P-E-D.
Definition
- 1Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.
- 2Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how chapped appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For chapped lips, or chapped nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, […] / For severely chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor […]
[…] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.
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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