desiccated
/ˈdɛsɪkeɪtəd/
"desiccated" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“desiccated” is uncommon English (frequency #60,761 among 26,416 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,761
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of desiccate
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desiccated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈdɛsɪkeɪtəd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “desiccated” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
desiccated is uncommon English at frequency #60,761 among 26,416 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈdɛsɪkeɪtəd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of desiccate".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for desiccated, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 desiccated, spelled D-E-S-I-C-C-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of desiccate
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 “desiccated”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-E-S-I-C-C-A-T-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.