dreamed
/ˈdɹiːmd/
"dreamed" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dreamed” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,354. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,354
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of dream
Corpus desk
Index EN-dreamed · dreamed · English
dreamed · rank #10,354 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,354
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH disciplinary
Nearest frequency peer: disciplinary (-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 “dreamed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- cue
cue
89,650 corpus weight
- deed
deed
89,649 corpus weight
- disciplinary
disciplinary
89,648 corpus weight
- dreamed
dreamed
89,647 corpus weight
- dwarf
dwarf
89,646 corpus weight
- eighty
eighty
89,645 corpus weight
What this shows “dreamed” 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 | dreamed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈdɹiːmd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “dreamed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around dreamed (IPA /ˈdɹiːmd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,354 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of dream".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for dreamed, with forms such as "ddreamed", "deramed", and "draemed". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "dreams", "dreamt", "dreamy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is dreamed, spelled D-R-E-A-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of dream
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dreamed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountains.
[Charlie Brown:] Last night I dreamed about that little red-haired girl […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddreamed
- deramed
- draemed
- dreaemd
- dreamde
- dreamedd
- dreammed
- dremaed
- drreamed
- rdeamed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dreamed - 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 "dreamed", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).