clocked
"clocked" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clocked” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,930. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,930
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Embroidered with clocks (i.e. figured decorations, not timepieces).
Corpus desk
Index EN-clocked · clocked · English
clocked · rank #22,930 · 11 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,930
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cleverly
Nearest frequency peer: cleverly (-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 “clocked”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- circumferen…
circumference
77,075 corpus weight
- Cleopatra
Cleopatra
77,073 corpus weight
- cleverly
cleverly
77,072 corpus weight
- clocked
clocked
77,071 corpus weight
- codex
codex
77,069 corpus weight
- composure
composure
77,067 corpus weight
What this shows “clocked” 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 | clocked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “clocked”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around clocked, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,930 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for clocked, with forms such as "cclocked", "clcoked", and "cllocked". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "closed", "cooked", "cocked", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is clocked, spelled C-L-O-C-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1Embroidered with clocks (i.e. figured decorations, not timepieces).
- 2Electronically running at a particular rate; governed by a repetitive time signal.
- 3Of a motor vehicle: having had its odometer turned back so as to display a lower mileage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how clocked appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But it will be impossible, if you keep your laced clothes covered, that anybody should know you in that dress to be the same gentleman—except they find you out by your clocked stockings.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclocked
- clcoked
- cllocked
- cloccked
- clocekd
- clockde
- clockedd
- clockked
- clokced
- colcked
- lcocked
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of clocked - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "clocked", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).