courted
"courted" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“courted” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,593. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,593
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Romantically pursued; wooed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-courted · courted · English
courted · rank #33,593 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,593
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cranked
Nearest frequency peer: cranked (+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 “courted”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Coors
Coors
66,411 corpus weight
- Correa
Correa
66,410 corpus weight
- courted
courted
66,408 corpus weight
- cranked
cranked
66,407 corpus weight
- crested
crested
66,406 corpus weight
- CRO
CRO
66,405 corpus weight
What this shows “courted” 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 | courted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “courted”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around courted, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,593 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for courted, with forms such as "ccourted", "coruted", and "couretd". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cured", "courts", "curved", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From court + -ed. The correct English form is courted, spelled C-O-U-R-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Romantically pursued; wooed.
- 2Enticed by attractions from those who wish one's favor or attention.
- 3Encouraged; sought-after.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how courted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
How little does the situation of a courted, fashionable girl, surrounded by her admirers, and thus at liberty to give herself every impertinent air, which a vain mind,and a selfish, unfeeling heart dictate, resemble that of the unobserved, disregarded being, who night after night, follows some elderly, undistinguished chaperon through the regular round of…
'I think no one has been more courted than she,' she went on, 'but till quite lately she never cared seriously for anyone. […]'
Etymology
From court + -ed.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccourted
- coruted
- couretd
- courrted
- courtde
- courtedd
- courtted
- coutred
- cuorted
- ocurted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of courted - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "courted", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).