hugged
/hʌɡd/
"hugged" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hugged” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,496
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of hug
Corpus desk
Index EN-hugged · hugged · English
hugged · rank #16,496 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,496
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH illegitimate
Nearest frequency peer: illegitimate (+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 “hugged”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- horrified
horrified
83,509 corpus weight
- hostel
hostel
83,508 corpus weight
- hound
hound
83,507 corpus weight
- hugged
hugged
83,505 corpus weight
- illegitimate
illegitimate
83,504 corpus weight
- illicit
illicit
83,503 corpus weight
What this shows “hugged” 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 | hugged |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /hʌɡd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hugged”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hugged (IPA /hʌɡd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,496 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of hug".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hugged, with forms such as "hguged", "hhugged", and "huged". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "hunger", "Hughes", "hunted", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is hugged, spelled H-U-G-G-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of hug
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hguged
- hhugged
- huged
- hugegd
- huggde
- huggedd
- uhgged
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hugged - 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 "hugged", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).