gathered
/ˈɡæðəd/
"gathered" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gathered” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,530. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,530
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of gather
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 | gathered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɡæðəd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gathered” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around gathered (IPA /ˈɡæðəd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,530 among 18,276 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of gather".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for gathered, with forms such as "agthered", "gahtered", and "gatehred". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "gatherer", "gather", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is gathered, spelled G-A-T-H-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of gather
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agthered
- gahtered
- gatehred
- gatheerd
- gatherde
- gatheredd
- gatherred
- gathhered
- gathreed
- gatthered
- ggathered
- gtahered
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gathered - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “gathered”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-A-T-H-E-R-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈɡæðəd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “gatherer” - see the side-by-side comparison. gathered vs gatherer
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.