couched
/kaʊt͡ʃt/
"couched" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“couched” is uncommon English (frequency #55,350 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,350
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of couch
Corpus desk
Index EN-couched · couched · English
couched · rank #55,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,350
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH copter
Nearest frequency peer: copter (-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 “couched”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- conveyancing
conveyancing
44,655 corpus weight
- coops
coops
44,654 corpus weight
- copter
copter
44,652 corpus weight
- couched
couched
44,651 corpus weight
- cowbell
cowbell
44,649 corpus weight
- CPAP
CPAP
44,648 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “couched” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couched |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kaʊt͡ʃt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “couched” in English
Rare enough to double-check
couched is uncommon English at frequency #55,350 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kaʊt͡ʃt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of couch".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for couched, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is couched, spelled C-O-U-C-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of couch
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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