fuelled
/ˈfjuː.əld/
"fuelled" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fuelled” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,155. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,155
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of fuel
Corpus desk
Index EN-fuelled · fuelled · English
fuelled · rank #27,155 · 7 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,155
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH frosting
Nearest frequency peer: frosting (-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 “fuelled”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- flax
flax
72,850 corpus weight
- fractional
fractional
72,849 corpus weight
- freighter
freighter
72,848 corpus weight
- frosting
frosting
72,847 corpus weight
- fuelled
fuelled
72,846 corpus weight
- GAAP
GAAP
72,843 corpus weight
What this shows “fuelled” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | fuelled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfjuː.əld/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “fuelled”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around fuelled (IPA /ˈfjuː.əld/), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,155 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of fuel".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for fuelled, with forms such as "feulled", "ffuelled", and "fueleld". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "fuller", "filled", "fueled", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 fuelled, spelled F-U-E-L-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of fuel
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- feulled
- ffuelled
- fueleld
- fuellde
- fuelledd
- fuleled
- ufelled
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fuelled - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).