cheeked
/t͡ʃiːkt/
"cheeked" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cheeked” is uncommon English (frequency #55,322 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,322
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having some specific type of cheek.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cheeked · cheeked · English
cheeked · rank #55,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,322
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cheech
Nearest frequency peer: Cheech (-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 “cheeked”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- checkerboard
checkerboard
44,681 corpus weight
- Cheech
Cheech
44,680 corpus weight
- cheeked
cheeked
44,679 corpus weight
- chih
chih
44,678 corpus weight
- chinaman
chinaman
44,677 corpus weight
- choline
choline
44,676 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cheeked” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cheeked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /t͡ʃiːkt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cheeked” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cheeked is uncommon English at frequency #55,322 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /t͡ʃiːkt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having some specific type of cheek.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cheeked, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cheeked, spelled C-H-E-E-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having some specific type of cheek.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cheeked appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh here be rare apples, red-cheeked apples that cry come kiss me: apples, hold your peace, I'll teach you to cry. [Eats one.
1771, Miguel de Cervantes, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha, translators not credited, London: W. Cowper, Vol. III, p. 87, https://books.google.ca/books?id=v80ZAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false […] and perceiving her to be no more than a plain country-wench, so far from being well-favoured, that she was blubber-cheeked,…
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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