polluted
"polluted" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“polluted” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,168. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,168
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Made unclean or impure.
Corpus desk
Index EN-polluted · polluted · English
polluted · rank #19,168 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,168
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH photon
Nearest frequency peer: photon (-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 “polluted”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pharaoh
pharaoh
80,836 corpus weight
- philanthropy
philanthropy
80,835 corpus weight
- photon
photon
80,834 corpus weight
- polluted
polluted
80,833 corpus weight
- potion
potion
80,832 corpus weight
- preparedness
preparedness
80,830 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “polluted” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | polluted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “polluted” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around polluted, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,168 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for polluted, with forms such as "oplluted", "ploluted", and "polltued". 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, "polled", "pollute", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is polluted, spelled P-O-L-L-U-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Made unclean or impure.
- 2Drunk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how polluted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"[He was] Absolutely polluted. He was SO drunk that he had to be helped into the cab!" "White, you are crazy! Jack Fielding was never drunk in his life!"
In a very 'ugly' mood, I got absolutely polluted and drunk the next night in San Diego for the very first time in my life. I got into a bar fight at the 'China Doll Bar,' hit a cop who had questioned my legal drinking age and pushed me when I felt that he[…]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oplluted
- ploluted
- polltued
- polluetd
- pollutde
- pollutedd
- pollutted
- polulted
- poluted
- ppolluted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of polluted - 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 "polluted", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "polluted" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "polled". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #19,168 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
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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.