ebbed
/ɛbd/
"ebbed" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ebbed” is uncommon English (frequency #72,262 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,262
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having receded, or reduced in amount, intensity, or importance; diminished.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ebbed · ebbed · English
ebbed · rank #72,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,262
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Dzhokhar
Nearest frequency peer: Dzhokhar (-3 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 “ebbed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dungarees
dungarees
27,745 corpus weight
- Duong
Duong
27,744 corpus weight
- Dzhokhar
Dzhokhar
27,742 corpus weight
- ebbed
ebbed
27,739 corpus weight
- effendi
effendi
27,736 corpus weight
- egoist
egoist
27,735 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ebbed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ebbed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɛbd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ebbed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ebbed is uncommon English at frequency #72,262 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɛbd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having receded, or reduced in amount, intensity, or importance; diminished.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ebbed in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ebbed, spelled E-B-B-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having receded, or reduced in amount, intensity, or importance; diminished.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ebbed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared, by being lacked.
But now, like the ebbed finances of one out of place, every thing seems to hang about it lose and empty.
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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