dispirited
/dɪˈspɪɹɪtəd/
"dispirited" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dispirited” is uncommon English (frequency #74,034 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,034
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of dispirit
Corpus desk
Index EN-dispirited · dispirited · English
dispirited · rank #74,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,034
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH disrespectful…
Nearest frequency peer: disrespectfully (+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 “dispirited”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dict
dict
25,972 corpus weight
- dispirited
dispirited
25,967 corpus weight
- disrespectf…
disrespectfully
25,966 corpus weight
- divining
divining
25,965 corpus weight
- Dnipropetro…
Dnipropetrovsk
25,963 corpus weight
- Doig
Doig
25,962 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dispirited” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dispirited |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɪˈspɪɹɪtəd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dispirited” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dispirited is uncommon English at frequency #74,034 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dɪˈspɪɹɪtəd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of dispirit".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dispirited, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is dispirited, spelled D-I-S-P-I-R-I-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of dispirit
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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