creaked
/kɹiːkt/
"creaked" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“creaked” is uncommon English (frequency #90,322 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,322
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of creak
Corpus desk
Index EN-creaked · creaked · English
creaked · rank #90,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,322
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 43,570
- PHOTO-FINISH crofting
Nearest frequency peer: crofting (+4 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “creaked”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- contrastive
contrastive
9,690 corpus weight
- Coren
Coren
9,689 corpus weight
- coss
coss
9,685 corpus weight
- creaked
creaked
9,679 corpus weight
- crofting
crofting
9,675 corpus weight
- cytomegalov…
cytomegalovirus
9,668 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “creaked” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | creaked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kɹiːkt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “creaked” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
creaked is uncommon English at frequency #90,322 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kɹiːkt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of creak".
creaked has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is creaked, spelled C-R-E-A-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of creak
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.