paired
/pɛəd/
"paired" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“paired” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,930. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,930
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That occurs as a pair.
Corpus desk
Index EN-paired · paired · English
paired · rank #9,930 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,930
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH parental
Nearest frequency peer: parental (+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 “paired”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- omega
omega
90,074 corpus weight
- onions
onions
90,073 corpus weight
- paired
paired
90,071 corpus weight
- parental
parental
90,070 corpus weight
- parody
parody
90,069 corpus weight
- parole
parole
90,068 corpus weight
What this shows “paired” 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 | paired |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pɛəd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “paired”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around paired (IPA /pɛəd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,930 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "That occurs as a pair.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for paired, with forms such as "apired", "paierd", and "pairde". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pied", "pare", "pairs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is paired, spelled P-A-I-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1That occurs as a pair.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apired
- paierd
- pairde
- pairedd
- pairred
- paried
- piared
- ppaired
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paired - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "paired", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).