congealed
"congealed" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“congealed” is uncommon English (frequency #76,662 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,662
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frozen.
Corpus desk
Index EN-congealed · congealed · English
congealed · rank #76,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,662
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Conran
Nearest frequency peer: Conran (+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 “congealed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- communally
communally
23,342 corpus weight
- condescendi…
condescendingly
23,341 corpus weight
- congealed
congealed
23,339 corpus weight
- Conran
Conran
23,338 corpus weight
- contrive
contrive
23,336 corpus weight
- Coombe
Coombe
23,335 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “congealed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | congealed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “congealed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
congealed is uncommon English at frequency #76,662 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for congealed, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is congealed, spelled C-O-N-G-E-A-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Frozen.
- 2Viscid, coagulated; jelly-like, unusually thick (of a liquid).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how congealed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yet still he wasted, as the snow congealed, / When the bright sunne his beams thereon doth beat [...].
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
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