nosed
/nəʊ̯zd/
"nosed" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nosed” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,256. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,256
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of nose
Corpus desk
Index EN-nosed · nosed · English
nosed · rank #24,256 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,256
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH nineties
Nearest frequency peer: nineties (-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 “nosed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- newfound
newfound
75,749 corpus weight
- nineties
nineties
75,746 corpus weight
- nosed
nosed
75,745 corpus weight
- nukes
nukes
75,744 corpus weight
- observation…
observational
75,743 corpus weight
- Olaf
Olaf
75,742 corpus weight
What this shows “nosed” 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 | nosed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /nəʊ̯zd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “nosed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around nosed (IPA /nəʊ̯zd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,256 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of nose".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for nosed, with forms such as "nnosed", "noesd", and "nosde". 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, "note", "nosy", "notes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is nosed, spelled N-O-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of nose
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnosed
- noesd
- nosde
- nosedd
- nossed
- nsoed
- onsed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nosed - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).