coloured
/ˈkʌl.əd/
"coloured" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coloured” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,017. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,017
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - British standard spelling of colored.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coloured · coloured · English
coloured · rank #8,017 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,017
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH competent
Nearest frequency peer: competent (+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 “coloured”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- boo
boo
91,987 corpus weight
- Cardiff
Cardiff
91,986 corpus weight
- coloured
coloured
91,984 corpus weight
- competent
competent
91,983 corpus weight
- countryside
countryside
91,982 corpus weight
- cracking
cracking
91,981 corpus weight
What this shows “coloured” 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 | coloured |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkʌl.əd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “coloured”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around coloured (IPA /ˈkʌl.əd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,017 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "British standard spelling of colored.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for coloured, with forms such as "ccoloured", "clooured", and "colloured". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "cultured", "colored", "clouded", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is coloured, spelled C-O-L-O-U-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1British standard spelling of colored.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coloured appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccoloured
- clooured
- colloured
- colorued
- colouerd
- colourde
- colouredd
- colourred
- coluored
- coolured
- ocloured
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coloured - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "coloured", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).