harried
"harried" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“harried” is uncommon English (frequency #56,793 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,793
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stressed, rushed, panicked, overly busy or preoccupied.
Corpus desk
Index EN-harried · harried · English
harried · rank #56,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,793
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH headcount
Nearest frequency peer: headcount (+3 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 “harried”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- happenstance
happenstance
43,212 corpus weight
- harried
harried
43,208 corpus weight
- headcount
headcount
43,205 corpus weight
- heartthrob
heartthrob
43,204 corpus weight
- heaved
heaved
43,203 corpus weight
- Hellas
Hellas
43,202 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “harried” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | harried |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “harried” in English
Rare enough to double-check
harried is uncommon English at frequency #56,793 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
harried doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, 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 nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 harried, spelled H-A-R-R-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Stressed, rushed, panicked, overly busy or preoccupied.
- 2Harassed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how harried appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The entire place teemed with harried executives who had no time to talk to one another.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).