debauched
/dɪˈbɔːtʃt/
"debauched" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“debauched” is uncommon English (frequency #67,353 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,353
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | debauched |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /dɪˈbɔːtʃt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “debauched” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
debauched is uncommon English at frequency #67,353 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /dɪˈbɔːtʃt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.".
Zero misspellings are on record for debauched in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 debauched, spelled D-E-B-A-U-C-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1Indulging in or characterised by sensual pleasures to a degree perceived to be morally harmful; corrupted; immoral; self-indulgent.
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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Using “debauched”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-E-B-A-U-C-H-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.