defamed
"defamed" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“defamed” is uncommon English (frequency #59,329 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,329
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Shown rampant without its tail.
Corpus desk
Index EN-defamed · defamed · English
defamed · rank #59,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,329
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH defecate
Nearest frequency peer: defecate (+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 “defamed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- debater
debater
40,678 corpus weight
- defamed
defamed
40,672 corpus weight
- defecate
defecate
40,671 corpus weight
- depo
depo
40,668 corpus weight
- depositary
depositary
40,667 corpus weight
- deprecation
deprecation
40,666 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “defamed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | defamed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “defamed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
defamed is uncommon English at frequency #59,329 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Shown rampant without its tail.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for defamed, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is defamed, spelled D-E-F-A-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1Shown rampant without its tail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how defamed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a lion defamed
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).