kneeled
/niːld/
"kneeled" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kneeled” is uncommon English (frequency #65,241 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,241
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of kneel
Corpus desk
Index EN-kneeled · kneeled · English
kneeled · rank #65,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,241
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kitsune
Nearest frequency peer: kitsune (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “kneeled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- kipper
kipper
34,764 corpus weight
- kismet
kismet
34,762 corpus weight
- kitsune
kitsune
34,761 corpus weight
- kneeled
kneeled
34,760 corpus weight
- Komi
Komi
34,758 corpus weight
- Kozak
Kozak
34,756 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kneeled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kneeled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /niːld/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kneeled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kneeled is uncommon English at frequency #65,241 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /niːld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of kneel".
Zero misspellings are on record for kneeled in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is kneeled, spelled K-N-E-E-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of kneel
Synonyms
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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