counterbalanced
"counterbalanced" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“counterbalanced” is uncommon English (frequency #79,418 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,418
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of counterbalance
Corpus desk
Index EN-counterbalanced · counterbalanced · English
counterbalanced · rank #79,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,418
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cowhide
Nearest frequency peer: cowhide (+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 “counterbalanced”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- corruptible
corruptible
20,587 corpus weight
- cottontail
cottontail
20,585 corpus weight
- counterbala…
counterbalanced
20,583 corpus weight
- cowhide
cowhide
20,582 corpus weight
- creaks
creaks
20,581 corpus weight
- crewmember
crewmember
20,579 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “counterbalanced” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | counterbalanced |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #79,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “counterbalanced” in English
Rare enough to double-check
counterbalanced is uncommon English at frequency #79,418 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of counterbalance".
counterbalanced doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is counterbalanced, spelled C-O-U-N-T-E-R-B-A-L-A-N-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of counterbalance
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how counterbalanced appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The wind blew from that direction, and brought with it the sound of their voices and laughter. The misery of such sounds was counterbalanced by the certainty that the same wind would waft their own voices, or rather Donna Margaretta's, voice away from the house.
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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