mixed

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The English entry for mixed is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɪkst/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,305 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "simple past and past participle of mix".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mixed, with forms such as "imxed", "miexd", and "mixde". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "moved", "Mixer", "muted", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From mix, equivalent to mix + -ed. Compare Middle English mixid (“mixed”, past participle), Old English miscode (“mixed”, preterite). More at mix. In adjectival use, reinforced by French mixte and/or Latin mixtus, past participle of misceō (“mix”), from the… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is mixed, spelled M-I-X-E-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.