gummed
/ɡʌmd/
"gummed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gummed” is uncommon English (frequency #93,765 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,765
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of gum
Corpus desk
Index EN-gummed · gummed · English
gummed · rank #93,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,765
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH guffaw
Nearest frequency peer: guffaw (-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 “gummed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- grotty
grotty
6,241 corpus weight
- guffaw
guffaw
6,237 corpus weight
- gummed
gummed
6,236 corpus weight
- Gundersen
Gundersen
6,235 corpus weight
- guzzler
guzzler
6,232 corpus weight
- Gygax
Gygax
6,229 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gummed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gummed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɡʌmd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gummed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gummed is uncommon English at frequency #93,765 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɡʌmd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of gum".
gummed doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is gummed, spelled G-U-M-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of gum
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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