dwelled
/dwɛld/
"dwelled" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dwelled” is uncommon English (frequency #68,172 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,172
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of dwell
Corpus desk
Index EN-dwelled · dwelled · English
dwelled · rank #68,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,172
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dusts
Nearest frequency peer: dusts (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “dwelled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- duodenum
duodenum
31,833 corpus weight
- Dushanbe
Dushanbe
31,831 corpus weight
- dusts
dusts
31,830 corpus weight
- dwelled
dwelled
31,829 corpus weight
- Eagan
Eagan
31,826 corpus weight
- EBC
EBC
31,825 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dwelled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dwelled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /dwɛld/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dwelled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dwelled is uncommon English at frequency #68,172 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /dwɛld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of dwell".
dwelled doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is dwelled, spelled D-W-E-L-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of dwell
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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