comforted
"comforted" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“comforted” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,704. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,704
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having been soothed or comforted.
Corpus desk
Index EN-comforted · comforted · English
comforted · rank #24,704 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,704
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH condensation
Nearest frequency peer: condensation (+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 “comforted”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cipher
cipher
75,300 corpus weight
- clarinet
clarinet
75,299 corpus weight
- comforted
comforted
75,297 corpus weight
- condensation
condensation
75,296 corpus weight
- Condos
Condos
75,295 corpus weight
- confesses
confesses
75,294 corpus weight
What this shows “comforted” 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 | comforted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #24,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “comforted”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around comforted, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,704 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Having been soothed or comforted.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for comforted, with forms such as "ccomforted", "cmoforted", and "cofmorted". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "comforter", "contorted", "comfort", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is comforted, spelled C-O-M-F-O-R-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having been soothed or comforted.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comforted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I also felt very comforted knowing that you were consistently calling the hospital to check on me during my stay at the hospital.
To summarize: on the average, rightists are made more anxious by ambiguity and have a stronger need for closure, dislike novelty, are more comforted by structure and hierarchy, more readily perceive circumstances as threatening, and are more parochial in their empathy.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomforted
- cmoforted
- cofmorted
- comfforted
- comforetd
- comforrted
- comfortde
- comfortedd
- comfortted
- comfotred
- comfroted
- commforted
- comofrted
- ocmforted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of comforted - 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 "comforted", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).