pecked
/pɛkt/
"pecked" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pecked” is uncommon English (frequency #63,879 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,879
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of peck
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pecked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɛkt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pecked” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pecked is uncommon English at frequency #63,879 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɛkt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of peck".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pecked, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 pecked, spelled P-E-C-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of peck
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 “pecked”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-E-C-K-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pɛkt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.