drummed
/dɹʌmd/
"drummed" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drummed” is an uncommon English word, ranked #51,671 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #51,671
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of drum
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drummed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dɹʌmd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drummed” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for drummed is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɹʌmd/. Corpus data places it at rank #51,671 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "simple past and past participle of drum".
No generated misspelling entries exist for drummed in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 drummed, spelled D-R-U-M-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of drum
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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Using “drummed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-R-U-M-M-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /dɹʌmd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.