intermixed
"intermixed" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“intermixed” is uncommon English (frequency #72,426 among 17,902 “I” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,426
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of intermix
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | intermixed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “intermixed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
intermixed is uncommon English at frequency #72,426 among 17,902 “I” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of intermix".
No misspelling variants are generated for intermixed in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is intermixed, spelled I-N-T-E-R-M-I-X-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of intermix
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 “intermixed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-N-T-E-R-M-I-X-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.