furred
/fɜːd/
"furred" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“furred” is uncommon English (frequency #70,683 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,683
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of fur
Corpus desk
Index EN-furred · furred · English
furred · rank #70,683 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,683
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fumed
Nearest frequency peer: fumed (-3 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 “furred”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- freshening
freshening
29,326 corpus weight
- Fukuyama
Fukuyama
29,322 corpus weight
- fumed
fumed
29,321 corpus weight
- furred
furred
29,318 corpus weight
- Galli
Galli
29,315 corpus weight
- gamed
gamed
29,314 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “furred” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | furred |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /fɜːd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “furred” in English
Rare enough to double-check
furred is uncommon English at frequency #70,683 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /fɜːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of fur".
No generated misspelling entries exist for furred in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is furred, spelled F-U-R-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of fur
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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