foaled
/fəʊld/
"foaled" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foaled” is uncommon English (frequency #86,284 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,284
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of foal
Corpus desk
Index EN-foaled · foaled · English
foaled · rank #86,284 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,284
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flummoxed
Nearest frequency peer: flummoxed (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “foaled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- firman
firman
13,722 corpus weight
- flashmob
flashmob
13,721 corpus weight
- floodlit
floodlit
13,719 corpus weight
- flummoxed
flummoxed
13,718 corpus weight
- foaled
foaled
13,717 corpus weight
- Fortunato
Fortunato
13,714 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “foaled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foaled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /fəʊld/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “foaled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
foaled is uncommon English at frequency #86,284 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /fəʊld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of foal".
No generated misspelling entries exist for foaled in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is foaled, spelled F-O-A-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of foal
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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