missed
/mɪst/
"missed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“missed” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,567. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,567
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of miss
Corpus desk
Index EN-missed · missed · English
missed · rank #1,567 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,567
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mentioned
Nearest frequency peer: mentioned (-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 “missed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- lake
lake
98,437 corpus weight
- mental
mental
98,436 corpus weight
- mentioned
mentioned
98,435 corpus weight
- missed
missed
98,434 corpus weight
- mostly
mostly
98,433 corpus weight
- mouth
mouth
98,432 corpus weight
What this shows “missed” 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 | missed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /mɪst/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “missed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around missed (IPA /mɪst/), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,567 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of miss".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for missed, with forms such as "imssed", "mised", and "misesd". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mixed", "Missy", "Misses", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is missed, spelled M-I-S-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of miss
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imssed
- mised
- misesd
- missde
- missedd
- mmissed
- msised
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of missed - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "missed", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).