# distraught

> English word · Adjective · IPA /dɪsˈtɹɔːt/ · frequency rank #23,809

## Definitions
1. Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
2. Mad; insane.

## Etymology
From Middle English distraught, blend of distract (“distracted”) and straught (“stretched, distraught”), past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”). Compare also bestraught, extraught, forstraught, etc. More at distract, stretch.

## Common misspellings (16)
`ddistraught`, `disrtaught`, `disstraught`, `distarught`, `distraguht`, `distraugght`, `distraughht`, `distraughtt`, `distraugth`, `distrauhgt`, `distrraught`, `distruaght`, `disttraught`, `ditsraught`, `dsitraught`, `idstraught`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/distraught