consisted
/kənˈsɪstɪd/
"consisted" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“consisted” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,133. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,133
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of consist
Corpus desk
Index EN-consisted · consisted · English
consisted · rank #8,133 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,133
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH compliment
Nearest frequency peer: compliment (-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 “consisted”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- collector
collector
91,870 corpus weight
- compliment
compliment
91,869 corpus weight
- consisted
consisted
91,868 corpus weight
- continually
continually
91,867 corpus weight
- coordinator
coordinator
91,866 corpus weight
- damaging
damaging
91,865 corpus weight
What this shows “consisted” 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 | consisted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kənˈsɪstɪd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “consisted”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around consisted (IPA /kənˈsɪstɪd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,133 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of consist".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for consisted, with forms such as "cconsisted", "cnosisted", and "conissted". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "consists", "convicted", "consulted", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is consisted, spelled C-O-N-S-I-S-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of consist
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cconsisted
- cnosisted
- conissted
- connsisted
- consisetd
- consissted
- consistde
- consistedd
- consistted
- consitsed
- conssisted
- conssited
- cosnisted
- ocnsisted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of consisted - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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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).