heeled
/hiːld/
"heeled" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“heeled” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,270. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,270
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of heel
Corpus desk
Index EN-heeled · heeled · English
heeled · rank #33,270 · 8 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,270
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Heaton
Nearest frequency peer: Heaton (-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 “heeled”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hamza
hamza
66,734 corpus weight
- Heaton
Heaton
66,732 corpus weight
- heeled
heeled
66,731 corpus weight
- helms
helms
66,730 corpus weight
- Hibernian
Hibernian
66,729 corpus weight
- hoi
hoi
66,728 corpus weight
What this shows “heeled” 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 | heeled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /hiːld/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “heeled”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around heeled (IPA /hiːld/), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,270 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of heel".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for heeled, with forms such as "eheled", "heeeld", and "heelde". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "held", "Helen", "heels", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From heel + -ed. The correct English form is heeled, spelled H-E-E-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of heel
Etymology
From heel + -ed.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eheled
- heeeld
- heelde
- heeledd
- heelled
- heled
- heleed
- hheeled
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of heeled - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "heeled", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).