peeved
/piːvd/
"peeved" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“peeved” is uncommon English (frequency #59,614 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,614
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of peeve
Corpus desk
Index EN-peeved · peeved · English
peeved · rank #59,614 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,614
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH peacebuilding
Nearest frequency peer: peacebuilding (-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 “peeved”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- peaceable
peaceable
40,389 corpus weight
- peacebuildi…
peacebuilding
40,388 corpus weight
- peeved
peeved
40,387 corpus weight
- peewee
peewee
40,386 corpus weight
- Penobscot
Penobscot
40,384 corpus weight
- perfecto
perfecto
40,383 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “peeved” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peeved |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /piːvd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,614 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “peeved” in English
Rare enough to double-check
peeved is uncommon English at frequency #59,614 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /piːvd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of peeve".
peeved doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is peeved, spelled P-E-E-V-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of peeve
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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