dumbed
"dumbed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dumbed” is uncommon English (frequency #62,110 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,110
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That has been made dumb (speechless).
Corpus desk
Index EN-dumbed · dumbed · English
dumbed · rank #62,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,110
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH drumstick
Nearest frequency peer: drumstick (-2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “dumbed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Dravid
Dravid
37,894 corpus weight
- drumstick
drumstick
37,893 corpus weight
- dumbed
dumbed
37,891 corpus weight
- earbud
earbud
37,889 corpus weight
- easternmost
easternmost
37,888 corpus weight
- Edina
Edina
37,887 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dumbed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dumbed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dumbed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dumbed is uncommon English at frequency #62,110 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "That has been made dumb (speechless).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dumbed, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 dumbed, spelled D-U-M-B-E-D.
Definition
- 1That has been made dumb (speechless).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dumbed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sharpevilled to spearpoints for revenging / but now our pride-dumbed mouths are wide in wordless supplication
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).