doubted
/ˈdaʊtɪd/
"doubted" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“doubted” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,218. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,218
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Considered doubtful; not trusted; uncertain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-doubted · doubted · English
doubted · rank #16,218 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,218
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH downing
Nearest frequency peer: downing (+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 “doubted”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- diversified
diversified
83,785 corpus weight
- doubted
doubted
83,783 corpus weight
- downing
downing
83,782 corpus weight
- duly
duly
83,781 corpus weight
- dusk
dusk
83,780 corpus weight
- edits
edits
83,779 corpus weight
What this shows “doubted” 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 | doubted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈdaʊtɪd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “doubted”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around doubted (IPA /ˈdaʊtɪd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,218 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Considered doubtful; not trusted; uncertain.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for doubted, with forms such as "ddoubted", "dobuted", and "doubbted". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "doubts", "dubbed", "dusted", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 doubted, spelled D-O-U-B-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Considered doubtful; not trusted; uncertain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doubted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And now for the Statue or Image of Christ, if it be worshipped towards with such a religious look and devout cast of the eyes as before, significative of the highest veneration that is due to God, or can by us be given to him, it is apparent that this exteriour ritual worship is done to this Image also; nor can be any more doubted, than if kissing of this…
But I have heard sundry men say That he was the most doubted man, That in Carrick was living than.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddoubted
- dobuted
- doubbted
- doubetd
- doubtde
- doubtedd
- doubtted
- doutbed
- duobted
- odubted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doubted - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).