fated
/ˈfeɪtɪd/
"fated" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fated” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,670. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,670
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fated · fated · English
fated · rank #22,670 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,670
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH farts
Nearest frequency peer: farts (-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 “fated”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- extinguished
extinguished
77,334 corpus weight
- Faber
Faber
77,333 corpus weight
- farts
farts
77,332 corpus weight
- fated
fated
77,331 corpus weight
- femme
femme
77,330 corpus weight
- fibrosis
fibrosis
77,328 corpus weight
What this shows “fated” 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 | fated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈfeɪtɪd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “fated”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fated (IPA /ˈfeɪtɪd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #22,670 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fated, with forms such as "afted", "faetd", and "fatde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fed", "FTE", "feed", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is fated, spelled F-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Foreordained, predetermined, established in advance by fate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fated appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This scheme was fated to be forgotten, at any rate in the form of the 1820 proposal.
Kristi Noem[…] may have committed a class two misdemeanor offence when her fated dog Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehair pointer Noem deemed “untrainable” for hunting pheasant, killed a neighbor’s chickens.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afted
- faetd
- fatde
- fatedd
- fatted
- ffated
- ftaed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fated - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).