clamped
/klæmpt/
"clamped" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clamped” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,179. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,179
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having clamps
Corpus desk
Index EN-clamped · clamped · English
clamped · rank #33,179 · 11 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,179
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH civics
Nearest frequency peer: civics (-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 “clamped”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- circumcised
circumcised
66,825 corpus weight
- cit
cit
66,824 corpus weight
- civics
civics
66,823 corpus weight
- clamped
clamped
66,822 corpus weight
- claps
claps
66,821 corpus weight
- clementine
clementine
66,820 corpus weight
What this shows “clamped” 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 | clamped |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /klæmpt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “clamped”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around clamped (IPA /klæmpt/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,179 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for clamped, with forms such as "calmped", "cclamped", and "clamepd". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "clamps", "clawed", "climbed", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 clamped, spelled C-L-A-M-P-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having clamps
- 2Fixed with, or as if with, a clamp.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- calmped
- cclamped
- clamepd
- clammped
- clampde
- clampedd
- clampped
- clapmed
- cllamped
- clmaped
- lcamped
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clamped - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).