concussed
"concussed" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“concussed” is uncommon English (frequency #55,338 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,338
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of concuss
Corpus desk
Index EN-concussed · concussed · English
concussed · rank #55,338 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,338
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH combe
Nearest frequency peer: combe (-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 “concussed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- colada
colada
44,668 corpus weight
- collectivist
collectivist
44,666 corpus weight
- combe
combe
44,664 corpus weight
- concussed
concussed
44,663 corpus weight
- connexion
connexion
44,661 corpus weight
- consign
consign
44,660 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “concussed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concussed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “concussed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
concussed is uncommon English at frequency #55,338 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of concuss".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for concussed, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is concussed, spelled C-O-N-C-U-S-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of concuss
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how concussed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The blow concussed him.
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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