impelled
/ɪmˈpɛld/
"impelled" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“impelled” is uncommon English (frequency #69,947 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,947
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of impel
Corpus desk
Index EN-impelled · impelled · English
impelled · rank #69,947 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,947
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH IMEI
Nearest frequency peer: IMEI (-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 “impelled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- illiquid
illiquid
30,057 corpus weight
- illusive
illusive
30,056 corpus weight
- IMEI
IMEI
30,055 corpus weight
- impelled
impelled
30,054 corpus weight
- indistinctly
indistinctly
30,052 corpus weight
- indolent
indolent
30,051 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “impelled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impelled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɪmˈpɛld/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “impelled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
impelled is uncommon English at frequency #69,947 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɪmˈpɛld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of impel".
No misspelling variants are generated for impelled in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is impelled, spelled I-M-P-E-L-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of impel
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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