chiselled
"chiselled" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chiselled” is uncommon English (frequency #74,830 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,830
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of chiseled.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chiselled · chiselled · English
chiselled · rank #74,830 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,830
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chimeric
Nearest frequency peer: chimeric (-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 “chiselled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chickenshit
chickenshit
25,174 corpus weight
- chimeric
chimeric
25,172 corpus weight
- chiselled
chiselled
25,171 corpus weight
- Chorlton
Chorlton
25,170 corpus weight
- chupacabra
chupacabra
25,169 corpus weight
- ciliary
ciliary
25,168 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chiselled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiselled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,830 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chiselled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chiselled is uncommon English at frequency #74,830 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of chiseled.".
chiselled doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is chiselled, spelled C-H-I-S-E-L-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of chiseled.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chiselled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But I thought he looked beautiful, and also like a man. He was tall and blond, chiselled and muscular.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).