compromised
"compromised" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“compromised” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,863. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,863
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That has been exposed to danger, risk, or discredit.
Corpus desk
Index EN-compromised · compromised · English
compromised · rank #9,863 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,863
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH compensate
Nearest frequency peer: compensate (-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 “compromised”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- collaborati…
collaborative
90,141 corpus weight
- commenced
commenced
90,140 corpus weight
- compensate
compensate
90,139 corpus weight
- compromised
compromised
90,138 corpus weight
- constructive
constructive
90,137 corpus weight
- conventions
conventions
90,136 corpus weight
What this shows “compromised” 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 | compromised |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #9,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “compromised”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around compromised, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,863 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "That has been exposed to danger, risk, or discredit.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for compromised, with forms such as "ccompromised", "cmopromised", and "commpromised". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "comprised", "compromise", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From compromise + -ed. The correct English form is compromised, spelled C-O-M-P-R-O-M-I-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1That has been exposed to danger, risk, or discredit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how compromised appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For our purposes, it is sufficient to note that dysregulation of desquamatory protease activity in the SC is often involved in conditions of compromised skin barrier.
Etymology
From compromise + -ed.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompromised
- cmopromised
- commpromised
- compormised
- comppromised
- comprmoised
- comproimsed
- compromiesd
- compromisde
- compromisedd
- compromissed
- comprommised
- compromsied
- comprromised
- comrpomised
- copmromised
- ocmpromised
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of compromised - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "compromised", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).