gapped
/ɡæpt/
"gapped" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gapped” is uncommon English (frequency #86,302 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,302
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a gap.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gapped · gapped · English
gapped · rank #86,302 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,302
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gapes
Nearest frequency peer: gapes (-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 “gapped”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- fugazi
fugazi
13,705 corpus weight
- gapes
gapes
13,700 corpus weight
- gapped
gapped
13,699 corpus weight
- garçon
garçon
13,697 corpus weight
- gastrectomy
gastrectomy
13,696 corpus weight
- gastroesoph…
gastroesophageal
13,695 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gapped” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gapped |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɡæpt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gapped” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gapped is uncommon English at frequency #86,302 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɡæpt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having a gap.".
gapped doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is gapped, spelled G-A-P-P-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a gap.
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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