cowered
/ˈkaʊəd/
"cowered" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cowered” is uncommon English (frequency #73,998 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,998
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of cower
Corpus desk
Index EN-cowered · cowered · English
cowered · rank #73,998 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,998
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Courteney
Nearest frequency peer: Courteney (-2 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 “cowered”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cott
cott
26,008 corpus weight
- counterclaim
counterclaim
26,007 corpus weight
- Courteney
Courteney
26,005 corpus weight
- cowered
cowered
26,003 corpus weight
- Creswell
Creswell
26,001 corpus weight
- crisply
crisply
25,999 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cowered” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cowered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkaʊəd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,998 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cowered” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cowered is uncommon English at frequency #73,998 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈkaʊəd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of cower".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cowered, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is cowered, spelled C-O-W-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of cower
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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