mellowed
"mellowed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mellowed” is uncommon English (frequency #54,936 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,936
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That has become mellow.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mellowed · mellowed · English
mellowed · rank #54,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,936
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH melding
Nearest frequency peer: melding (-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 “mellowed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- meanie
meanie
45,068 corpus weight
- meanness
meanness
45,067 corpus weight
- melding
melding
45,066 corpus weight
- mellowed
mellowed
45,065 corpus weight
- memoranda
memoranda
45,064 corpus weight
- Menard
Menard
45,063 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mellowed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mellowed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mellowed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mellowed is uncommon English at frequency #54,936 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mellowed has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mellow + -ed. The correct English form is mellowed, spelled M-E-L-L-O-W-E-D.
Definition
- 1That has become mellow.
- 2That has become mellow.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mellowed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And when the princely Perſean Diadem, / Shall ouerweigh his wearie witleſſe head, / And fall like mellowed fruit, with ſhakes of death, / In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain / Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King: […]
Etymology
From mellow + -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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).