paddled
"paddled" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“paddled” is uncommon English (frequency #50,137 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,137
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - spanked with a paddle, e.g. in corporal punishment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paddled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paddled” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
paddled is uncommon English at frequency #50,137 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "spanked with a paddle, e.g. in corporal punishment.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for paddled, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is paddled, spelled P-A-D-D-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1spanked with a paddle, e.g. in corporal punishment.
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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Using “paddled”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-D-D-L-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.