foundered
"foundered" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“foundered” is uncommon English (frequency #52,328 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,328
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lame.
Corpus desk
Index EN-foundered · foundered · English
foundered · rank #52,328 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,328
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH forger
Nearest frequency peer: forger (-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 “foundered”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- forecourt
forecourt
47,676 corpus weight
- forewarned
forewarned
47,675 corpus weight
- forger
forger
47,674 corpus weight
- foundered
foundered
47,673 corpus weight
- Frankish
Frankish
47,671 corpus weight
- frankness
frankness
47,670 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “foundered” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | foundered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “foundered” in English
Rare enough to double-check
foundered is uncommon English at frequency #52,328 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lame.".
foundered has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is foundered, spelled F-O-U-N-D-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Lame.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how foundered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a foundered horse
his horse was foundered
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).