exploded
"exploded" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exploded” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,044. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,044
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having been subjected to an explosion; blown up.
Corpus desk
Index EN-exploded · exploded · English
exploded · rank #10,044 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,044
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH fairness
Nearest frequency peer: fairness (+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 “exploded”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- drainage
drainage
89,962 corpus weight
- drowning
drowning
89,961 corpus weight
- embarrassme…
embarrassment
89,960 corpus weight
- exploded
exploded
89,957 corpus weight
- fairness
fairness
89,956 corpus weight
- felony
felony
89,954 corpus weight
What this shows “exploded” 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 | exploded |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,044 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “exploded”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around exploded, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,044 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for exploded, with forms such as "epxloded", "exlpoded", and "expldoed". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "exposed", "explore", "explorer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is exploded, spelled E-X-P-L-O-D-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having been subjected to an explosion; blown up.
- 2Having the appearance of being separated into component parts.
- 3Ruined; gone; used up.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exploded appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
exploded diagram
exploded pie chart
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxloded
- exlpoded
- expldoed
- explloded
- explodded
- explodedd
- exploedd
- expolded
- expploded
- exxploded
- xeploded
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exploded - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "exploded", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).