paled
/peɪld/
"paled" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“paled” is uncommon English (frequency #68,513 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,513
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of pale
| 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) |
Where “paled” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
paled is uncommon English at frequency #68,513 among 46,516 “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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Using “paled”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-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.