enfeebled
"enfeebled" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“enfeebled” is uncommon English (frequency #98,073 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,073
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Weakened; reduced to a powerless state.
Corpus desk
Index EN-enfeebled · enfeebled · English
enfeebled · rank #98,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,073
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH energon
Nearest frequency peer: energon (-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 “enfeebled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- empiricist
empiricist
1,932 corpus weight
- Enderby
Enderby
1,931 corpus weight
- energon
energon
1,929 corpus weight
- enfeebled
enfeebled
1,928 corpus weight
- enterovirus
enterovirus
1,925 corpus weight
- EPF
EPF
1,923 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “enfeebled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enfeebled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “enfeebled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
enfeebled is uncommon English at frequency #98,073 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Weakened; reduced to a powerless state.".
enfeebled doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is enfeebled, spelled E-N-F-E-E-B-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Weakened; reduced to a powerless state.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enfeebled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So enfeebled was resolution in him that he could only palter at a fatuous picture of himself carrying Podson bodily over the lagoon and dumping him on the sand dunes.
In commercial after commercial, humans are oblivious, enfeebled, barely functioning idiots beset by more tasks, stimuli and demands on their time than anyone could reasonably handle.
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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