dyed
/daɪd/
"dyed" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dyed” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,459. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,459
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of dye
Corpus desk
Index EN-dyed · dyed · English
dyed · rank #16,459 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,459
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Dustin
Nearest frequency peer: Dustin (-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 “dyed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Dre
Dre
83,545 corpus weight
- duet
duet
83,544 corpus weight
- Dustin
Dustin
83,543 corpus weight
- dyed
dyed
83,542 corpus weight
- Eisenhower
Eisenhower
83,541 corpus weight
- Elsa
Elsa
83,539 corpus weight
What this shows “dyed” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dyed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /daɪd/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “dyed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around dyed (IPA /daɪd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,459 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for dyed, with forms such as "ddyed", "deyd", and "dyde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dyke", "dyer", "dyes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is dyed, spelled D-Y-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of dye
- 2Obsolete spelling of died.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dyed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thomas Tinker, and his wife and sone, all dyed in the first sicknes.
How many Masters have some stately Houses had, in the age of a small Cottage, that hath, as it were, lived, and dyed with her old Master, both dropping down together.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddyed
- deyd
- dyde
- dyedd
- dyyed
- yded
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dyed - 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.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dyed", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).