gleamed
/ɡliːmd/
"gleamed" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gleamed” is uncommon English (frequency #88,383 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,383
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of gleam
Corpus desk
Index EN-gleamed · gleamed · English
gleamed · rank #88,383 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,383
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Glamis
Nearest frequency peer: Glamis (-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 “gleamed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- giftedness
giftedness
11,621 corpus weight
- Gion
Gion
11,620 corpus weight
- Glamis
Glamis
11,619 corpus weight
- gleamed
gleamed
11,618 corpus weight
- Glenlivet
Glenlivet
11,617 corpus weight
- Glenrothes
Glenrothes
11,616 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gleamed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gleamed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɡliːmd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gleamed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gleamed is uncommon English at frequency #88,383 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɡliːmd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of gleam".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for gleamed, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is gleamed, spelled G-L-E-A-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of gleam
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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