pecked
/pɛkt/
"pecked" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pecked” is uncommon English (frequency #63,879 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,879
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of peck
Corpus desk
Index EN-pecked · pecked · English
pecked · rank #63,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,879
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH peen
Nearest frequency peer: peen (+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 “pecked”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- passé
passé
36,126 corpus weight
- Pathan
Pathan
36,125 corpus weight
- pecked
pecked
36,122 corpus weight
- peen
peen
36,121 corpus weight
- pennywise
pennywise
36,120 corpus weight
- perilously
perilously
36,117 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pecked” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “pecked” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pecked is uncommon English at frequency #63,879 among 4,417 “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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