plumed
/pluːmd/
"plumed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plumed” is uncommon English (frequency #83,630 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,630
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-plumed · plumed · English
plumed · rank #83,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,630
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH plunk
Nearest frequency peer: plunk (+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 “plumed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pinafore
pinafore
16,376 corpus weight
- plasmon
plasmon
16,373 corpus weight
- plumed
plumed
16,371 corpus weight
- plunk
plunk
16,370 corpus weight
- Polito
Polito
16,368 corpus weight
- Poston
Poston
16,366 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “plumed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plumed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pluːmd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “plumed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
plumed is uncommon English at frequency #83,630 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /pluːmd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.".
plumed has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is plumed, spelled P-L-U-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having or decorated with a plume or plumes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plumed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O now for euer / Farewell the tranquile mind, farewell content: / Farewell the plumed troope, and the big warres: / That makes ambition vertue: [...]
Is there no Albyn now to wake thy song, / No chiefs who still their fathers' worth retain, / No plumed and plaided clans those hills among, / Worthy to claim the tribute of thy strain?
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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