pitied
/ˈpɪtid/
"pitied" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pitied” is uncommon English (frequency #52,553 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,553
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of pity
Corpus desk
Index EN-pitied · pitied · English
pitied · rank #52,553 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,553
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pizarro
Nearest frequency peer: Pizarro (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pitied”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- phonetically
phonetically
47,451 corpus weight
- phosphorous
phosphorous
47,450 corpus weight
- pitied
pitied
47,448 corpus weight
- Pizarro
Pizarro
47,447 corpus weight
- plaything
plaything
47,446 corpus weight
- PNR
PNR
47,445 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pitied” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pitied |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈpɪtid/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pitied” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pitied is uncommon English at frequency #52,553 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈpɪtid/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of pity".
No misspelling variants are generated for pitied in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is pitied, spelled P-I-T-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of pity
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.