denuded
"denuded" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“denuded” is uncommon English (frequency #74,020 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,020
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - exposed by erosion
Corpus desk
Index EN-denuded · denuded · English
denuded · rank #74,020 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,020
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH depolarization
Nearest frequency peer: depolarization (+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 “denuded”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dander
dander
25,986 corpus weight
- deadass
deadass
25,984 corpus weight
- denuded
denuded
25,981 corpus weight
- depolarizat…
depolarization
25,979 corpus weight
- depositional
depositional
25,978 corpus weight
- deregulate
deregulate
25,977 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “denuded” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | denuded |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “denuded” in English
Rare enough to double-check
denuded is uncommon English at frequency #74,020 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "exposed by erosion".
No generated misspelling entries exist for denuded in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is denuded, spelled D-E-N-U-D-E-D.
Definition
- 1exposed by erosion
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how denuded appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Harvester ants have brilliantly carved an enormous niche for themselves in nature and etched indelible images in mankind: images from cartoon depictions of a backyard volcano erupting with angry ants when their home is trespassed, to images of vast stretches of the American West marred with ant castles surrounded by denuded moats of dirt.
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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