crazed
/kɹeɪzd/
"crazed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crazed” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,130. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,130
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maddened; driven insane.
Corpus desk
Index EN-crazed · crazed · English
crazed · rank #24,130 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,130
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Crawley
Nearest frequency peer: Crawley (-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 “crazed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- coulter
coulter
75,874 corpus weight
- cram
cram
75,873 corpus weight
- Crawley
Crawley
75,872 corpus weight
- crazed
crazed
75,871 corpus weight
- crossword
crossword
75,870 corpus weight
- cuckoo
cuckoo
75,869 corpus weight
What this shows “crazed” 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 | crazed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kɹeɪzd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “crazed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around crazed (IPA /kɹeɪzd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,130 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for crazed, with forms such as "carzed", "ccrazed", and "craezd". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cred", "crazy", "cried", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is crazed, spelled C-R-A-Z-E-D.
Definition
- 1Maddened; driven insane.
- 2Obsessed with something.
- 3Covered with cracks (generally applied to porcelain, plastics, and paints).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how crazed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The crazed look in his eyes made everyone back away.
He was crazed with thirst and resorted to drinking seawater.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- carzed
- ccrazed
- craezd
- crazde
- crazedd
- crazzed
- crrazed
- crzaed
- rcazed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of crazed - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "crazed", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).