infringed
"infringed" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“infringed” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,882. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,882
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of infringe
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 | infringed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “infringed” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around infringed, averb. Corpus frequency is #27,882 among 17,902 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of infringe".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for infringed, with forms such as "ifnringed", "inffringed", and "infirnged". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "infringe", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is infringed, spelled I-N-F-R-I-N-G-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of infringe
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ifnringed,inffringed,infirnged,infrigned,infrinegd,infringde,infringedd,infringged,infrinnged,infrniged,infrringed,innfringed,inrfinged,nifringed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of infringed - 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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Using “infringed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-N-F-R-I-N-G-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “infringe” - see the side-by-side comparison. infringed vs infringe
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.