dumbed
"dumbed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dumbed” is an uncommon English word, ranked #62,110 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #62,110
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - That has been made dumb (speechless).
| 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) |
Where “dumbed” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for dumbed is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #62,110 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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).
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 “dumbed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-U-M-B-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.