deforested
/dɪˈfɒɹɪstəd/
"deforested" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“deforested” is uncommon English (frequency #91,409 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,409
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of deforest
Corpus desk
Index EN-deforested · deforested · English
deforested · rank #91,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,409
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Delmarva
Nearest frequency peer: Delmarva (+2 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 “deforested”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- deads
deads
8,597 corpus weight
- decile
decile
8,595 corpus weight
- deforested
deforested
8,592 corpus weight
- Delmarva
Delmarva
8,590 corpus weight
- Demogorgon
Demogorgon
8,588 corpus weight
- denaturation
denaturation
8,587 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “deforested” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deforested |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɪˈfɒɹɪstəd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “deforested” in English
Rare enough to double-check
deforested is uncommon English at frequency #91,409 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɪˈfɒɹɪstəd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of deforest".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for deforested, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 deforested, spelled D-E-F-O-R-E-S-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of deforest
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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