gamed
/ɡeɪmd/
"gamed" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gamed” is uncommon English (frequency #70,687 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,687
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of game
Corpus desk
Index EN-gamed · gamed · English
gamed · rank #70,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,687
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Galli
Nearest frequency peer: Galli (-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 “gamed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fumed
fumed
29,321 corpus weight
- furred
furred
29,318 corpus weight
- Galli
Galli
29,315 corpus weight
- gamed
gamed
29,314 corpus weight
- gayness
gayness
29,309 corpus weight
- gendarme
gendarme
29,308 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gamed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gamed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɡeɪmd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gamed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gamed is uncommon English at frequency #70,687 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɡeɪmd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of game".
gamed has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 gamed, spelled G-A-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of game
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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