cratered

verb

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

The verdict

“cratered” is uncommon English (frequency #83,151 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#83,151
frequency rank, English
5,599
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of crater

Corpus desk

Index EN-cratered · cratered · English

cratered · rank #83,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #83,151
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,599
  • PHOTO-FINISH covetous

Nearest frequency peer: covetous (-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 “cratered”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “cratered” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cratered
PropertyValue
Headwordcratered
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters8
Frequency rank#83,151
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “cratered” in English

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).crateredfalls in this rarity band:

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

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “covetous” (#83,150), “Creon” (#83,152), “crisscrossing” (#83,153). Among 5,599 “C” headwords, “cratered” is #83,151. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cratered is uncommon English at frequency #83,151 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of crater".

No generated misspelling entries exist for cratered in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From crater + -ed. The correct English form is cratered, spelled C-R-A-T-E-R-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of crater

Etymology

From crater + -ed.

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 "cratered"?
"cratered" is spelled C-R-A-T-E-R-E-D.
What does "cratered" mean?
As a verb, "cratered" means: simple past and past participle of crater
What is the origin of the word "cratered"?
From crater + -ed. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

covetous#83,150Coupland#83,148Dalkeith#83,158cheerily#83,110

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list