glitched
/ɡlɪt͡ʃt/
"glitched" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“glitched” is uncommon English (frequency #77,709 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,709
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affected by a glitch.
Corpus desk
Index EN-glitched · glitched · English
glitched · rank #77,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,709
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH glinting
Nearest frequency peer: glinting (-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 “glitched”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- genny
genny
22,297 corpus weight
- germline
germline
22,296 corpus weight
- glinting
glinting
22,293 corpus weight
- glitched
glitched
22,292 corpus weight
- globalised
globalised
22,291 corpus weight
- glottal
glottal
22,289 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “glitched” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glitched |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɡlɪt͡ʃt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “glitched” in English
Rare enough to double-check
glitched is uncommon English at frequency #77,709 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɡlɪt͡ʃt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affected by a glitch.".
glitched has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 glitched, spelled G-L-I-T-C-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1Affected by a glitch.
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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