dominated
/ˈdɒm.əˌneɪ.tɪd/
"dominated" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dominated” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,321. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,321
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of dominate
Corpus desk
Index EN-dominated · dominated · English
dominated · rank #5,321 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,321
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH displayed
Nearest frequency peer: displayed (-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 “dominated”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- devoted
devoted
94,683 corpus weight
- didnt
didnt
94,682 corpus weight
- displayed
displayed
94,681 corpus weight
- dominated
dominated
94,680 corpus weight
- earl
earl
94,679 corpus weight
- endless
endless
94,678 corpus weight
What this shows “dominated” 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 | dominated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈdɒm.əˌneɪ.tɪd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “dominated”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around dominated (IPA /ˈdɒm.əˌneɪ.tɪd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,321 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of dominate".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for dominated, with forms such as "ddominated", "dmoinated", and "doimnated". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "donated", "dominate", "denominated", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 dominated, spelled D-O-M-I-N-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of dominate
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddominated
- dmoinated
- doimnated
- domianted
- dominaetd
- dominatde
- dominatedd
- dominatted
- dominnated
- domintaed
- domminated
- domniated
- odminated
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dominated - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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