gunned
/ɡʌnd/
"gunned" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gunned” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,774. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,774
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of gun
Corpus desk
Index EN-gunned · gunned · English
gunned · rank #24,774 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,774
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gunna
Nearest frequency peer: gunna (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “gunned”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- groan
groan
75,230 corpus weight
- grub
grub
75,229 corpus weight
- gunna
gunna
75,228 corpus weight
- gunned
gunned
75,227 corpus weight
- hangout
hangout
75,225 corpus weight
- Hartman
Hartman
75,224 corpus weight
What this shows “gunned” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | gunned |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɡʌnd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “gunned”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around gunned (IPA /ɡʌnd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,774 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of gun".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for gunned, with forms such as "ggunned", "gnuned", and "guned". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "gutted", "Gunner", "gurney", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is gunned, spelled G-U-N-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of gun
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggunned
- gnuned
- guned
- gunend
- gunnde
- gunnedd
- ugnned
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gunned - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).