fabled
"fabled" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fabled” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,228. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,228
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Known only in fables; fictitious.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fabled · fabled · English
fabled · rank #33,228 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,228
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH exorcism
Nearest frequency peer: exorcism (-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 “fabled”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Euphrates
Euphrates
66,776 corpus weight
- exorcism
exorcism
66,774 corpus weight
- fabled
fabled
66,773 corpus weight
- fabricate
fabricate
66,772 corpus weight
- fatherhood
fatherhood
66,771 corpus weight
- Favre
Favre
66,770 corpus weight
What this shows “fabled” 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 | fabled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “fabled”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fabled, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,228 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fabled, with forms such as "afbled", "fabbled", and "fabeld". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "fled", "faced", "filed", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is fabled, spelled F-A-B-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Known only in fables; fictitious.
- 2Made known by fables or reputation; legendary, famed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fabled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text We tug our hammer-headed mules along the tourist trails of Petra, the fabled Nabataean capital cut from rock the color of living muscle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afbled
- fabbled
- fabeld
- fablde
- fabledd
- fablled
- falbed
- fbaled
- ffabled
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fabled - 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 "fabled", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).