indulged

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for indulged is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒd/. Corpus data places it at rank #30,093 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Having had all desires, wishes, and whims granted; having been brought up lavishly, wanting for nothing.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for indulged, with forms such as "idnulged", "inddulged", and "indluged". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "insulted", "indulgent", "induced", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is indulged, spelled I-N-D-U-L-G-E-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.