# helped

> English word · Verb · IPA /hɛlpt/ · frequency rank #1,395

## Definitions
1. simple past and past participle of help

## Easily confused with
- **helps** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/helped-vs-helps)
- **hoped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/helped-vs-hoped)
- **hyped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/helped-vs-hyped)
- **holed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/helped-vs-holed)
- **helper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/helped-vs-helper)
- **herpes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/helped-vs-herpes)
- **help** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/help-vs-helped)
- **held** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/held-vs-helped)
- **heed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heed-vs-helped)
- **Helen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/helen-vs-helped)
- **headed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/headed-vs-helped)
- **heated** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heated-vs-helped)
- **helmet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/helmet-vs-helped)
- **healed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/healed-vs-helped)
- **halted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/halted-vs-helped)
- **heller** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heller-vs-helped)
- **heeled** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heeled-vs-helped)
- **heaped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaped-vs-helped)
- **heeded** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heeded-vs-helped)
- **hedged** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hedged-vs-helped)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ehlped`, `helepd`, `hellped`, `helpde`, `helpedd`, `helpped`, `hepled`, `hhelped`, `hleped`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/helped