pleased

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The English entry for pleased is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pliːzd/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,384 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Happy, content.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for pleased, with forms such as "lpeased", "pelased", and "plaesed". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "pressed", "pledged", "pleated", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English plesed, iplesed (past participle) and Middle English plesede (preterit), both equivalent to please + -ed. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is pleased, spelled P-L-E-A-S-E-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.