indulged
/ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒd/
"indulged" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“indulged” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,093. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,093
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having had all desires, wishes, and whims granted; having been brought up lavishly, wanting for nothing.
Corpus desk
Index EN-indulged · indulged · English
indulged · rank #30,093 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,093
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH impressively
Nearest frequency peer: impressively (-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 “indulged”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- impersonati…
impersonating
69,911 corpus weight
- impossibly
impossibly
69,910 corpus weight
- impressively
impressively
69,909 corpus weight
- indulged
indulged
69,908 corpus weight
- inexperience
inexperience
69,907 corpus weight
- inferiority
inferiority
69,906 corpus weight
What this shows “indulged” 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 | indulged |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “indulged”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around indulged (IPA /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,093 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "insulted", "indulgent", "induced", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is indulged, spelled I-N-D-U-L-G-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having had all desires, wishes, and whims granted; having been brought up lavishly, wanting for nothing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how indulged appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
By the year 1765, Richard `Dickie' Tattersall, the absurdly romantic self-styled soldier of fortune and indulged son of an obscenely well-off Yorkshire squire, was brimming with gratitude[.]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idnulged
- inddulged
- indluged
- indugled
- indulegd
- indulgde
- indulgedd
- indulgged
- indullged
- inndulged
- inudlged
- nidulged
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indulged - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).