inched
/ɪnt͡ʃt/
"inched" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“inched” is uncommon English (frequency #59,463 among 2,140 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,463
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of inch
Corpus desk
Index EN-inched · inched · English
inched · rank #59,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,463
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH inboard
Nearest frequency peer: inboard (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “inched”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hypoxic
hypoxic
40,542 corpus weight
- IIB
IIB
40,541 corpus weight
- inboard
inboard
40,539 corpus weight
- inched
inched
40,538 corpus weight
- incumbency
incumbency
40,537 corpus weight
- inelastic
inelastic
40,535 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “inched” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | inched |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɪnt͡ʃt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “inched” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
inched is uncommon English at frequency #59,463 among 2,140 “I” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɪnt͡ʃt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of inch".
No misspelling variants are generated for inched in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is inched, spelled I-N-C-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of inch
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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