petrified
"petrified" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“petrified” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,960. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,960
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having undergone the process of petrification (transformation into a stony substance); turned to stone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-petrified · petrified · English
petrified · rank #27,960 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,960
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pheasant
Nearest frequency peer: pheasant (+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 “petrified”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- paintball
paintball
72,046 corpus weight
- parton
parton
72,044 corpus weight
- petrified
petrified
72,041 corpus weight
- pheasant
pheasant
72,040 corpus weight
- photosynthe…
photosynthesis
72,039 corpus weight
- piccolo
piccolo
72,038 corpus weight
What this shows “petrified” 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 | petrified |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “petrified”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around petrified, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,960 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for petrified, with forms such as "eptrified", "pertified", and "petirfied". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "purified", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is petrified, spelled P-E-T-R-I-F-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having undergone the process of petrification (transformation into a stony substance); turned to stone.
- 2Extremely afraid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how petrified appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On Yule-eve alone can petrified Giants receive back their life for the space of seven hours, if one of their race embraces them, and is, at the same time, willing to sacrifice a hundred years of their own life.
Entering Avebury from any direction is like stepping back into the past. Before the centre of the village is reached, the road passes through an immense circle of brooding stones which stand like petrified ghosts of an age about which little is known.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eptrified
- pertified
- petirfied
- petrfiied
- petrifeid
- petriffied
- petrifide
- petrifiedd
- petriifed
- petrrified
- pettrified
- ppetrified
- pterified
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of petrified - 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
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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).