doomed
/duːmd/
"doomed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doomed” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,038. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,038
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
Corpus desk
Index EN-doomed · doomed · English
doomed · rank #10,038 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,038
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dinosaur
Nearest frequency peer: dinosaur (-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 “doomed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- determines
determines
89,966 corpus weight
- digit
digit
89,965 corpus weight
- dinosaur
dinosaur
89,964 corpus weight
- doomed
doomed
89,963 corpus weight
- drainage
drainage
89,962 corpus weight
- drowning
drowning
89,961 corpus weight
What this shows “doomed” 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 | doomed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /duːmd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “doomed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around doomed (IPA /duːmd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,038 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for doomed, with forms such as "ddoomed", "domoed", and "dooemd". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "doped", "dotted", "downed", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is doomed, spelled D-O-O-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
- 2Assured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doomed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
Moments later, Courageous sheers out of line, smoke and steam venting through a massive hole in her side, the shells having blasted right through whatever excuse for armor was present and detonated amidst the boiler rooms. She is doomed.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddoomed
- domoed
- dooemd
- doomde
- doomedd
- doommed
- odomed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doomed - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "doomed", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).