cultivated
/ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/
"cultivated" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cultivated” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,952. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,952
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of cultivate
Corpus desk
Index EN-cultivated · cultivated · English
cultivated · rank #12,952 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #12,952
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crypto
Nearest frequency peer: crypto (-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 “cultivated”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- contender
contender
87,052 corpus weight
- crimson
crimson
87,051 corpus weight
- crypto
crypto
87,050 corpus weight
- cultivated
cultivated
87,049 corpus weight
- curly
curly
87,048 corpus weight
- debated
debated
87,047 corpus weight
What this shows “cultivated” 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 | cultivated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cultivated”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around cultivated (IPA /ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,952 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of cultivate".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for cultivated, with forms such as "ccultivated", "clutivated", and "culitvated". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cultivate", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is cultivated, spelled C-U-L-T-I-V-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of cultivate
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccultivated
- clutivated
- culitvated
- culltivated
- cultiavted
- cultivaetd
- cultivatde
- cultivatedd
- cultivatted
- cultivtaed
- cultivvated
- culttivated
- cultviated
- cutlivated
- ucltivated
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cultivated - 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 "cultivated", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).