exposed
/ɪkˈspoʊzd/
"exposed" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exposed” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #2,945. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,945
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Open (especially to something), unconcealed and/or unprotected (and therefore vulnerable, susceptible).
Corpus desk
Index EN-exposed · exposed · English
exposed · rank #2,945 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,945
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH exact
Nearest frequency peer: exact (-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 “exposed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- detailed
detailed
97,059 corpus weight
- entitled
entitled
97,058 corpus weight
- exact
exact
97,057 corpus weight
- exposed
exposed
97,056 corpus weight
- fed
fed
97,055 corpus weight
- fee
fee
97,054 corpus weight
What this shows “exposed” 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 | exposed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɪkˈspoʊzd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “exposed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around exposed (IPA /ɪkˈspoʊzd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,945 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Open (especially to something), unconcealed and/or unprotected (and therefore vulnerable, susceptible).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for exposed, with forms such as "epxosed", "exopsed", and "expoesd". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "exposes", "exposé", "excused", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 exposed, spelled E-X-P-O-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Open (especially to something), unconcealed and/or unprotected (and therefore vulnerable, susceptible).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exposed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
exposed to light; exposed to water; exposed to abuse; exposed to danger
an exposed path (trail, etc) up the mountain (one with a drop-off on one or both sides)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxosed
- exopsed
- expoesd
- exposde
- exposedd
- expossed
- expposed
- expsoed
- exxposed
- xeposed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exposed - 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 "exposed", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).