discredited
"discredited" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“discredited” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,807. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,807
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Considered invalid, unreliable, or untrustworthy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-discredited · discredited · English
discredited · rank #23,807 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #23,807
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH disorderly
Nearest frequency peer: disorderly (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “discredited”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- deteriorate
deteriorate
76,197 corpus weight
- discredited
discredited
76,194 corpus weight
- disorderly
disorderly
76,193 corpus weight
- distraught
distraught
76,192 corpus weight
- Dogg
Dogg
76,190 corpus weight
- Dons
Dons
76,189 corpus weight
What this shows “discredited” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discredited |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #23,807 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “discredited”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around discredited, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,807 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Considered invalid, unreliable, or untrustworthy.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for discredited, with forms such as "ddiscredited", "dicsredited", and "disccredited". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "discredit", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is discredited, spelled D-I-S-C-R-E-D-I-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Considered invalid, unreliable, or untrustworthy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how discredited appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A reputedly valiant but discredited warrior is speared to death by killers in the service of another warrior, who is also reputedly valiant but even more discredited: it is a false denouement for a false tragedy .
I will tell you though, that as a scientific theory, "Darwinism" is probably THE most discredited theory ever put forth by ANY scientist at ANY time in the history of mankind; and why it is so desperately hung onto, and clung to by educators and scientists the way it is, well it's way beyond me.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiscredited
- dicsredited
- disccredited
- discerdited
- discrdeited
- discreddited
- discredietd
- discreditde
- discreditedd
- discreditted
- discredtied
- discreidted
- discrredited
- disrcedited
- disscredited
- dsicredited
- idscredited
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of discredited - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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