dredged

verb

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"dredged" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“dredged” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,601. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,601
frequency rank, English
3,470
“D” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of dredge

Corpus desk

Index EN-dredged · dredged · English

dredged · rank #41,601 · 11 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,601
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,470
  • PHOTO-FINISH dreadfully

Nearest frequency peer: dreadfully (-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 “dredged”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “dredged” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

dredged vs drudge
71% similar
dredged vs dressed
71% similar
dredged vs drugged
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for dredged
PropertyValue
Headworddredged
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Frequency rank#41,601
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “dredged”

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).dredgedlands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Same rarity band neighbours include “dreadfully” (#41,600), “Duarte” (#41,602), “durst” (#41,603). Among 3,470 “D” headwords, “dredged” is #41,601. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around dredged, averb. Corpus frequency is #41,601 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of dredge".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dredged, with forms such as "ddredged", "derdged", and "drdeged". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "drudge", "dressed", "drugged", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 dredged, spelled D-R-E-D-G-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of dredge

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how dredged appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. With an objective to provide a railhead on the Seaford branch in Sussex for sea-dredged aggregates, the project rapidly moved from a concept sketch in December 2015 to completion in 2020.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddredged
  • derdged
  • drdeged
  • dreddged
  • dredegd
  • dredgde
  • dredgedd
  • dredgged
  • dregded
  • drredged
  • rdedged

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dredged - 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.

ddredged1derdged2drdeged2dreddged1dredegd2dredgde2dredgedd1dredgged1
Edit distance from "dredged"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dredged"?
"dredged" is spelled D-R-E-D-G-E-D.
What does "dredged" mean?
As a verb, "dredged" means: simple past and past participle of dredge
What words are commonly confused with "dredged"?
"dredged" is commonly confused with "drudge", "dressed", "drugged". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "dredged" come from?
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dredged", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list