palmed
"palmed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“palmed” is uncommon English (frequency #73,511 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,511
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having or bearing a palm or palms.
Corpus desk
Index EN-palmed · palmed · English
palmed · rank #73,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,511
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH paperboard
Nearest frequency peer: paperboard (+3 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 “palmed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- outmatched
outmatched
26,495 corpus weight
- palmed
palmed
26,490 corpus weight
- paperboard
paperboard
26,487 corpus weight
- patristic
patristic
26,486 corpus weight
- penicillium
penicillium
26,484 corpus weight
- penna
penna
26,483 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “palmed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palmed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “palmed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
palmed is uncommon English at frequency #73,511 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having or bearing a palm or palms.".
Zero misspellings are on record for palmed in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 palmed, spelled P-A-L-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having or bearing a palm or palms.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how palmed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a palmed deer
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).