debased
"debased" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“debased” is an uncommon English word, ranked #60,749 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #60,749
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Brought low; degraded.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | debased |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “debased” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for debased is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #60,749 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Zero misspellings are on record for debased in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is debased, spelled D-E-B-A-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Brought low; degraded.
- 2Abased, abaissé: (of a charge) borne lower than usual.
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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Using “debased”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-E-B-A-S-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.