mailed
/meɪld/
"mailed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mailed” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,991. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,991
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of mail
Corpus desk
Index EN-mailed · mailed · English
mailed · rank #14,991 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,991
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH LSU
Nearest frequency peer: LSU (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “mailed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- locomotive
locomotive
85,013 corpus weight
- longing
longing
85,012 corpus weight
- LSU
LSU
85,011 corpus weight
- mailed
mailed
85,010 corpus weight
- manny
manny
85,009 corpus weight
- mantra
mantra
85,008 corpus weight
What this shows “mailed” 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 | mailed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /meɪld/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mailed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around mailed (IPA /meɪld/), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,991 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of mail".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for mailed, with forms such as "amiled", "maield", and "mailde". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "male", "mile", "mild", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mail (“send by post”). The correct English form is mailed, spelled M-A-I-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of mail
Etymology
From mail (“send by post”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amiled
- maield
- mailde
- mailedd
- mailled
- malied
- mialed
- mmailed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mailed - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mailed", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).