entailed
"entailed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“entailed” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,542. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,542
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having or resulting from a legal entail; pertaining to inheritance that is limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
Corpus desk
Index EN-entailed · entailed · English
entailed · rank #31,542 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,542
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Enid
Nearest frequency peer: Enid (-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 “entailed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- endpoint
endpoint
68,462 corpus weight
- Englewood
Englewood
68,461 corpus weight
- Enid
Enid
68,460 corpus weight
- entailed
entailed
68,459 corpus weight
- ethyl
ethyl
68,458 corpus weight
- Evanston
Evanston
68,457 corpus weight
What this shows “entailed” 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 | entailed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “entailed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around entailed, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,542 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for entailed, with forms such as "enatiled", "enntailed", and "entaield". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "enticed", "entitled", "entail", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is entailed, spelled E-N-T-A-I-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having or resulting from a legal entail; pertaining to inheritance that is limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
- 2That is required logically (by something); That has logical dependencies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how entailed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The role, therefore, which prevented the alienation of entailed estates being thus broken in upon, fines and recoveries became the common modes of assurance in conveying that species of property.
Entailed property must be considered by every one who knows thoroughly what society is, as anti-social. It has been set apart by selfish men for the sole benefit of their favoirite heirs, in order that they might be though its instrumentality enabled to live anti-socially, and to be excempt from the usual operation of the laws which take cognizance of oth…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enatiled
- enntailed
- entaield
- entailde
- entailedd
- entailled
- entalied
- entialed
- enttailed
- etnailed
- netailed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entailed - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).