costumed

adj

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"costumed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“costumed” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#40,188
frequency rank, English
5,599
“C” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wearing a costume; disguised.

Corpus desk

Index EN-costumed · costumed · English

costumed · rank #40,188 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #40,188
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,599
  • PHOTO-FINISH cordless

Nearest frequency peer: cordless (-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 “costumed”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “costumed” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

costumed vs costume
88% similar
costumed vs consumed
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for costumed
PropertyValue
Headwordcostumed
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Frequency rank#40,188
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “costumed”

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).costumedlands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Same rarity band neighbours include “cordless” (#40,187), “countrywide” (#40,189), “Cooney” (#40,186). Among 5,599 “C” headwords, “costumed” is #40,188. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around costumed, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,188 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Wearing a costume; disguised.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for costumed, with forms such as "ccostumed", "cosstumed", and "costmued". 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, "costume", "consumed", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored 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 costumed, spelled C-O-S-T-U-M-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Wearing a costume; disguised.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how costumed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. For a livelier scene, head here on Friday or Saturday night, when mass beer-sculling (chugging) and yodeling are accompanied by a brass band and costumed waitresses ferrying foaming beer steins about the atmospheric, cellarlike space.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccostumed
  • cosstumed
  • costmued
  • costtumed
  • costuemd
  • costumde
  • costumedd
  • costummed
  • cosutmed
  • cotsumed
  • csotumed
  • ocstumed

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of costumed - 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.

ccostumed1cosstumed1costmued2costtumed1costuemd2costumde2costumedd1costummed1
Edit distance from "costumed"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "costumed"?
"costumed" is spelled C-O-S-T-U-M-E-D.
What does "costumed" mean?
As an adjective, "costumed" means: Wearing a costume; disguised.
What words are commonly confused with "costumed"?
"costumed" is commonly confused with "costume", "consumed". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "costumed" come from?
"costumed" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "costumed", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

cordless#40,187creepers#40,191Coltrane#40,177Cockburn#40,176

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

Dartmoor12 variantsbounding12 variantsdoctored12 variantsBollinger12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list