nauseated
/ˈnɔːziˌeɪtɪd/
"nauseated" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nauseated” is uncommon English (frequency #58,228 among 1,534 “N” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,228
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a feeling of nausea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nauseated · nauseated · English
nauseated · rank #58,228 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,228
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Narita
Nearest frequency peer: Narita (-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 “nauseated”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Myrna
Myrna
41,776 corpus weight
- Márquez
Márquez
41,775 corpus weight
- Narita
Narita
41,774 corpus weight
- nauseated
nauseated
41,773 corpus weight
- Neri
Neri
41,770 corpus weight
- nestling
nestling
41,769 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “nauseated” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nauseated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈnɔːziˌeɪtɪd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “nauseated” in English
Rare enough to double-check
nauseated is uncommon English at frequency #58,228 among 1,534 “N” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈnɔːziˌeɪtɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having a feeling of nausea.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for nauseated, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is nauseated, spelled N-A-U-S-E-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a feeling of nausea.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how nauseated appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The tire bumped on gravel, skeetered across the road, crashed into a barrier and popped me like a cork onto pavement. Dizzy and nauseated, I lay on the cement and shook my head still
This word in other languages
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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