flared
/flɛəd/
"flared" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flared” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,754. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,754
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of flare
Corpus desk
Index EN-flared · flared · English
flared · rank #24,754 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,754
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH figurative
Nearest frequency peer: figurative (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “flared”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- femininity
femininity
75,251 corpus weight
- fickle
fickle
75,249 corpus weight
- figurative
figurative
75,248 corpus weight
- flared
flared
75,247 corpus weight
- footwork
footwork
75,245 corpus weight
- forage
forage
75,244 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “flared” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | flared |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /flɛəd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flared” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around flared (IPA /flɛəd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,754 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of flare".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for flared, with forms such as "falred", "fflared", and "flaerd". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Fred", "fled", "framed", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is flared, spelled F-L-A-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of flare
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falred
- fflared
- flaerd
- flarde
- flaredd
- flarred
- fllared
- flraed
- lfared
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flared - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "flared", 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).
What to do next
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- "flared" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Fred". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #24,754 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "F" letter cohort. F–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.