fleeced
"fleeced" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fleeced” is uncommon English (frequency #58,698 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,698
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a fleece.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fleeced · fleeced · English
fleeced · rank #58,698 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,698
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flayed
Nearest frequency peer: flayed (-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 “fleeced”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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41,304 corpus weight
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41,303 corpus weight
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What this shows Bars show where “fleeced” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fleeced |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “fleeced” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
fleeced is uncommon English at frequency #58,698 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having a fleece.".
fleeced has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 fleeced, spelled F-L-E-E-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a fleece.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fleeced appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When once a demand for broad cloths is created, they will be open to the conviction that it will be to their advantage to exchange the doombas for fleeced sheep and hair of very trifling value for wool.
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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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.