fortified
/ˈfɔɹtɪfaɪd/
"fortified" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fortified” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,474. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,474
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of fortify
Corpus desk
Index EN-fortified · fortified · English
fortified · rank #16,474 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,474
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH folds
Nearest frequency peer: folds (-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 “fortified”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- flaming
flaming
83,530 corpus weight
- foes
foes
83,529 corpus weight
- folds
folds
83,528 corpus weight
- fortified
fortified
83,527 corpus weight
- Fran
Fran
83,526 corpus weight
- François
François
83,525 corpus weight
What this shows “fortified” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fortified |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfɔɹtɪfaɪd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “fortified”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around fortified (IPA /ˈfɔɹtɪfaɪd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,474 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of fortify".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for fortified, with forms such as "ffortified", "foritfied", and "forrtified". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is fortified, spelled F-O-R-T-I-F-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of fortify
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffortified
- foritfied
- forrtified
- fortfiied
- fortifeid
- fortiffied
- fortifide
- fortifiedd
- fortiifed
- forttified
- fotrified
- frotified
- ofrtified
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fortified - 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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