gaped
/ɡeɪpt/
"gaped" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gaped” is uncommon English (frequency #91,547 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,547
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of gape
Corpus desk
Index EN-gaped · gaped · English
gaped · rank #91,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,547
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gandolfini
Nearest frequency peer: Gandolfini (-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 “gaped”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gamechanger
gamechanger
8,458 corpus weight
- gamelan
gamelan
8,456 corpus weight
- Gandolfini
Gandolfini
8,455 corpus weight
- gaped
gaped
8,454 corpus weight
- Garand
Garand
8,453 corpus weight
- garn
garn
8,451 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gaped” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gaped |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɡeɪpt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gaped” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gaped is uncommon English at frequency #91,547 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɡeɪpt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of gape".
gaped has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is gaped, spelled G-A-P-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of gape
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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