hoofed
/hʊft/
"hoofed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hoofed” is uncommon English (frequency #83,349 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,349
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Having a hoof or hooves; ungulate.
| 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) |
Where “hoofed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hoofed is uncommon English at frequency #83,349 among 23,837 “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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Using “hoofed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-O-O-F-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /hʊft/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.