creased
/kɹiːst/
"creased" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“creased” is uncommon English (frequency #55,356 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,356
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a crease or creases.
Corpus desk
Index EN-creased · creased · English
creased · rank #55,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,356
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Cracow
Nearest frequency peer: Cracow (-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 “creased”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- CPAP
CPAP
44,648 corpus weight
- crabby
crabby
44,647 corpus weight
- Cracow
Cracow
44,646 corpus weight
- creased
creased
44,645 corpus weight
- Cretan
Cretan
44,644 corpus weight
- crocus
crocus
44,642 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “creased” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | creased |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kɹiːst/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “creased” in English
Rare enough to double-check
creased is uncommon English at frequency #55,356 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /kɹiːst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
creased has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is creased, spelled C-R-E-A-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a crease or creases.
- 2Wrinkly.
- 3Amused.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how creased appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You're not going out wearing that creased shirt, are you?
Feller was creased like he lived under a camel.[…]'Inswinging free kick,' goes the creased geezer.
This word in other languages
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).