curved
/kɜːvd/
"curved" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“curved” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,158. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,158
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a curve or curves; curving.
Corpus desk
Index EN-curved · curved · English
curved · rank #9,158 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,158
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH crushing
Nearest frequency peer: crushing (-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 “curved”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- convey
convey
90,846 corpus weight
- critique
critique
90,845 corpus weight
- crushing
crushing
90,844 corpus weight
- curved
curved
90,843 corpus weight
- Cyrus
Cyrus
90,842 corpus weight
- decay
decay
90,841 corpus weight
What this shows “curved” 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 | curved |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /kɜːvd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “curved”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around curved (IPA /kɜːvd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,158 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Having a curve or curves; curving.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for curved, with forms such as "ccurved", "cruved", and "curevd". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "curvy", "curves", "cure", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 curved, spelled C-U-R-V-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a curve or curves; curving.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curved appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These VEAs (of which some 550 were built in total) would themselves have been converted from 1962 vanwides, refurbished and fitted with airbrakes specifically with Ministry of Defence munitions traffic in mind, as many military establishments and depots would have had track too sharply curved for newer airbraked wagons.
CREST - Out of a wreath or & azure, an Indian King's head in profile proper, crowned or, with high cap curved forward gules having at the point a small bell.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccurved
- cruved
- curevd
- currved
- curvde
- curvedd
- curvved
- cuvred
- ucrved
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of curved - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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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).