combated
"combated" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“combated” is uncommon English (frequency #89,246 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,246
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of combat
Corpus desk
Index EN-combated · combated · English
combated · rank #89,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,246
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Comeau
Nearest frequency peer: Comeau (+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 “combated”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Cobbett
Cobbett
10,760 corpus weight
- cogito
cogito
10,759 corpus weight
- coherency
coherency
10,758 corpus weight
- combated
combated
10,755 corpus weight
- Comeau
Comeau
10,754 corpus weight
- copiously
copiously
10,746 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “combated” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | combated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “combated” in English
Rare enough to double-check
combated is uncommon English at frequency #89,246 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of combat".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for combated, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is combated, spelled C-O-M-B-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of combat
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how combated appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The timidity of pronouncing the beloved name once overcome, it is a fond indulgence to dwell on expanding hopes, or to express gentle fears, for the very sake of having them combated.
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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