hazed
"hazed" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hazed” is uncommon English (frequency #88,414 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,414
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affected by haze; hazy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hazed · hazed · English
hazed · rank #88,414 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,414
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Haughey
Nearest frequency peer: Haughey (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hazed”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Harlech
Harlech
11,592 corpus weight
- Haughey
Haughey
11,589 corpus weight
- hazed
hazed
11,587 corpus weight
- headbanging
headbanging
11,585 corpus weight
- Hedlund
Hedlund
11,584 corpus weight
- Hibbs
Hibbs
11,582 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hazed” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hazed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hazed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hazed is uncommon English at frequency #88,414 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hazed in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 hazed, spelled H-A-Z-E-D.
Definition
- 1Affected by haze; hazy.
- 2Clouded, especially due to accidental exposure to light.
- 3Drunk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hazed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With W., N.W., and N. winds the air is very clear, whereas from all other directions it is very much hazed. All winds from E. by S. to SW are nearly ten times more hazed than those from the NW quadrant.
The images of reality become more and more hazed, more and more dim. Hibernation pulls him away. Floating, the nightmare returns.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.