ironed
"ironed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ironed” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,047. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,047
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proivided with, or strengthened by, iron; shod with iron.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ironed · ironed · English
ironed · rank #32,047 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,047
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH intersex
Nearest frequency peer: intersex (-2 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 “ironed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- inhaler
inhaler
67,958 corpus weight
- intersex
intersex
67,956 corpus weight
- ironed
ironed
67,954 corpus weight
- jacuzzi
jacuzzi
67,952 corpus weight
- Kohler
Kohler
67,950 corpus weight
- lacquer
lacquer
67,949 corpus weight
What this shows “ironed” 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 | ironed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ironed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around ironed, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,047 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ironed, with forms such as "iorned", "irnoed", and "iroend". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "irony", "irons", "ironic", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is ironed, spelled I-R-O-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1Proivided with, or strengthened by, iron; shod with iron.
- 2Made of iron.
- 3That has been put in irons; shackled.
- 4That has been pressed or smoothed with a hot iron; pressed.
- 5Treated as with a hair iron; curled with a curling iron, or straightened with a straightening-iron or with electric straighteners.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ironed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[T]he ironed convict, dragging his tree trunk to the summit edge of some beetling plateau, looks down upon a sea of fog, through which rise mountain-tops like islands […].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iorned
- irnoed
- iroend
- ironde
- ironedd
- ironned
- irroned
- rioned
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ironed - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).