patterned
"patterned" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“patterned” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,020. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,020
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conformed to a pattern, a model to be followed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-patterned · patterned · English
patterned · rank #21,020 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,020
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pastel
Nearest frequency peer: pastel (-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 “patterned”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- oft
oft
78,985 corpus weight
- Olympus
Olympus
78,984 corpus weight
- oversaw
oversaw
78,983 corpus weight
- pastel
pastel
78,982 corpus weight
- patterned
patterned
78,981 corpus weight
- pessimistic
pessimistic
78,978 corpus weight
What this shows “patterned” 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 | patterned |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,020 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “patterned”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around patterned, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,020 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for patterned, with forms such as "aptterned", "paterned", and "patetrned". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pattern", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is patterned, spelled P-A-T-T-E-R-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1Conformed to a pattern, a model to be followed.
- 2Supplied with a pattern
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how patterned appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Royal Navy kept patterned birches and patterned canes at the principal dockyards as specimens, intending to standardize the main implements used for formal corporal punishment on its ships
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptterned
- paterned
- patetrned
- pattenred
- patterend
- patternde
- patternedd
- patternned
- patterrned
- pattrened
- ppatterned
- ptaterned
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patterned - 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 "patterned", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).