ploughed
"ploughed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ploughed” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #38,556. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,556
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
Corpus desk
Index EN-ploughed · ploughed · English
ploughed · rank #38,556 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,556
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH placate
Nearest frequency peer: placate (-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 “ploughed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- permissive
permissive
61,450 corpus weight
- phrased
phrased
61,449 corpus weight
- placate
placate
61,446 corpus weight
- ploughed
ploughed
61,445 corpus weight
- postseconda…
postsecondary
61,442 corpus weight
- powdery
powdery
61,441 corpus weight
What this shows “ploughed” 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 | ploughed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ploughed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around ploughed, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,556 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ploughed, with forms such as "lpoughed", "plloughed", and "ploguhed". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "plugged", "plough", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is ploughed, spelled P-L-O-U-G-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
- 2Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
- 3Drunk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ploughed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
they stacked the glass up + right up to the level that you would normally have if you had ice in your drink anyway + and consequently I got ploughed
"I said are you allowed to drink? You know, beer. Whatever. Isn't it against your religion?" […] There were a few kids at school who said they were Mormon, but that didn't stop 'em from getting ploughed, and other kids who went to church but smoke and drank and cussed and screwed.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpoughed
- plloughed
- ploguhed
- plougehd
- plougghed
- ploughde
- ploughedd
- ploughhed
- plouhged
- pluoghed
- polughed
- pploughed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ploughed - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ploughed", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).