gagged
/ɡæɡd/
"gagged" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gagged” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,817. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,817
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of gag
Corpus desk
Index EN-gagged · gagged · English
gagged · rank #32,817 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,817
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gabriella
Nearest frequency peer: Gabriella (-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 “gagged”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- frills
frills
67,188 corpus weight
- FSB
FSB
67,186 corpus weight
- Gabriella
Gabriella
67,185 corpus weight
- gagged
gagged
67,184 corpus weight
- ganga
ganga
67,182 corpus weight
- garret
garret
67,181 corpus weight
What this shows “gagged” 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 | gagged |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɡæɡd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “gagged”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around gagged (IPA /ɡæɡd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,817 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "past participle of gag".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for gagged, with forms such as "aggged", "gaged", and "gagegd". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "gauge", "gated", "gazed", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 gagged, spelled G-A-G-G-E-D.
Definition
- 1past participle of gag
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aggged
- gaged
- gagegd
- gaggde
- gaggedd
- ggaged
- ggagged
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gagged - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).