chewed
/t͡ʃuːd/
"chewed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chewed” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,159. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,159
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of chew
Corpus desk
Index EN-chewed · chewed · English
chewed · rank #21,159 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,159
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chemically
Nearest frequency peer: chemically (-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 “chewed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- catheter
catheter
78,845 corpus weight
- chemically
chemically
78,843 corpus weight
- chewed
chewed
78,842 corpus weight
- cinematogra…
cinematography
78,841 corpus weight
- cleans
cleans
78,840 corpus weight
- coincidenta…
coincidentally
78,839 corpus weight
What this shows “chewed” 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 | chewed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /t͡ʃuːd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,159 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “chewed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around chewed (IPA /t͡ʃuːd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,159 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of chew".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for chewed, with forms such as "cchewed", "cehwed", and "cheewd". 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, "creed", "Crewe", "chewy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 chewed, spelled C-H-E-W-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of chew
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cchewed
- cehwed
- cheewd
- chewde
- chewedd
- chewwed
- chhewed
- chweed
- hcewed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of chewed - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).