erased
"erased" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“erased” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,160. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,160
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having the appearance of being forcibly torn off, with parts left jagged or uneven, as distinguished from couped.
Corpus desk
Index EN-erased · erased · English
erased · rank #15,160 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,160
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH enlightened
Nearest frequency peer: enlightened (-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 “erased”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- EDT
EDT
84,846 corpus weight
- elk
elk
84,844 corpus weight
- enlightened
enlightened
84,842 corpus weight
- erased
erased
84,841 corpus weight
- exhaustion
exhaustion
84,838 corpus weight
- expectancy
expectancy
84,837 corpus weight
What this shows “erased” 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 | erased |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “erased”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around erased, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,160 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Having the appearance of being forcibly torn off, with parts left jagged or uneven, as distinguished from couped.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for erased, with forms such as "earsed", "eraesd", and "erasde". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "erred", "eraser", "ease", 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, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is erased, spelled E-R-A-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having the appearance of being forcibly torn off, with parts left jagged or uneven, as distinguished from couped.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how erased appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Az., on a fesse, embattled, counterembattled, arg., between three cocks' heads, erased, of the last, beaked, combed, and wattled, gu., two roses, also gu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- earsed
- eraesd
- erasde
- erasedd
- erassed
- errased
- ersaed
- reased
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of erased - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).