limbed
/lɪmd/
"limbed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“limbed” is uncommon English (frequency #72,494 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,494
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Having limbs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | limbed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /lɪmd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “limbed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
limbed is uncommon English at frequency #72,494 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /lɪmd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for limbed, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English ilimed (“having limbs, limbed”) [and other forms], from i- (prefix forming adjectives, past participles, etc.) + lim (“organ or part of the body, member; extremity of an animal or human body, limb; sexual organ; a person as a member of t… The correct English form is limbed, spelled L-I-M-B-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having limbs.
- 2Preceded by a descriptive word: having limbs of a specified kind or quality.
Etymology
From Middle English ilimed (“having limbs, limbed”) [and other forms], from i- (prefix forming adjectives, past participles, etc.) + lim (“organ or part of the body, member; extremity of an animal or human body, limb; sexual organ; a person as a member of the group of all Christians; follower; liegeman; corner of a siege tower; arm of the sea; branch of a subject”) (see further at lim) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives); analysable as limb + -ed.
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 “limbed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-I-M-B-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.