entertained
/ˌɛntɚˈteɪnd/
"entertained" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“entertained” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,234. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,234
- frequency rank, English
- 18,836
- “E” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Enjoying to having enjoyed entertainments; amused.
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 | entertained |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌɛntɚˈteɪnd/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “entertained” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around entertained (IPA /ˌɛntɚˈteɪnd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,234 among 18,836 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Enjoying to having enjoyed entertainments; amused.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for entertained, with forms such as "enetrtained", "enntertained", and "enteratined". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "entertainer", "entertain", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is entertained, spelled E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1Enjoying to having enjoyed entertainments; amused.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enetrtained
- enntertained
- enteratined
- enterrtained
- entertaiend
- entertainde
- entertainedd
- entertainned
- entertanied
- entertianed
- enterttained
- entetrained
- entretained
- enttertained
- etnertained
- netertained
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of entertained - 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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Using “entertained”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌɛntɚˈteɪnd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “entertainer” - see the side-by-side comparison. entertained vs entertainer
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.