paled
/peɪld/
"paled" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“paled” is uncommon English (frequency #68,513 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,513
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of pale
Corpus desk
Index EN-paled · paled · English
paled · rank #68,513 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,513
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pakenham
Nearest frequency peer: Pakenham (-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 “paled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- overpayment
overpayment
31,494 corpus weight
- overtone
overtone
31,492 corpus weight
- Pakenham
Pakenham
31,489 corpus weight
- paled
paled
31,488 corpus weight
- pampa
pampa
31,486 corpus weight
- pantsuit
pantsuit
31,483 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “paled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /peɪld/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “paled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
paled is uncommon English at frequency #68,513 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /peɪld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of pale".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for paled, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is paled, spelled P-A-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of pale
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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