hoofed
/hʊft/
"hoofed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hoofed” is uncommon English (frequency #83,349 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,349
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a hoof or hooves; ungulate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hoofed · hoofed · English
hoofed · rank #83,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,349
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hoochie
Nearest frequency peer: hoochie (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “hoofed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Holywell
Holywell
16,655 corpus weight
- homebuilding
homebuilding
16,654 corpus weight
- hoochie
hoochie
16,653 corpus weight
- hoofed
hoofed
16,652 corpus weight
- Hooman
Hooman
16,651 corpus weight
- hoorah
hoorah
16,650 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hoofed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hoofed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /hʊft/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hoofed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hoofed is uncommon English at frequency #83,349 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /hʊft/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having a hoof or hooves; ungulate.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hoofed, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English hoved, hovyde, from Old English ġehōfod (“hoofed, hooved”), equivalent to hoof + -ed. The correct English form is hoofed, spelled H-O-O-F-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a hoof or hooves; ungulate.
Etymology
From Middle English hoved, hovyde, from Old English ġehōfod (“hoofed, hooved”), equivalent to hoof + -ed.
This word in other languages
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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