clotted
/ˈklɑtəd/
"clotted" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“clotted” is uncommon English (frequency #58,602 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,602
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of clot
Corpus desk
Index EN-clotted · clotted · English
clotted · rank #58,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,602
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cloakroom
Nearest frequency peer: cloakroom (-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 “clotted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- clift
clift
41,402 corpus weight
- clinker
clinker
41,401 corpus weight
- cloakroom
cloakroom
41,400 corpus weight
- clotted
clotted
41,399 corpus weight
- CLU
CLU
41,398 corpus weight
- coenzyme
coenzyme
41,397 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “clotted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | clotted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈklɑtəd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “clotted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
clotted is uncommon English at frequency #58,602 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈklɑtəd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of clot".
Zero misspellings are on record for clotted in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is clotted, spelled C-L-O-T-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of clot
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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