preserved
/pɹəˈzɜːvd/
"preserved" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“preserved” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,397. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,397
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of preserve
Corpus desk
Index EN-preserved · preserved · English
preserved · rank #6,397 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,397
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH ports
Nearest frequency peer: ports (-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 “preserved”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- penny
penny
93,608 corpus weight
- petty
petty
93,607 corpus weight
- PhD
PhD
93,606 corpus weight
- ports
ports
93,605 corpus weight
- preserved
preserved
93,604 corpus weight
- prospects
prospects
93,602 corpus weight
What this shows “preserved” 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 | preserved |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɹəˈzɜːvd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “preserved”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around preserved (IPA /pɹəˈzɜːvd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,397 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of preserve".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for preserved, with forms such as "perserved", "ppreserved", and "preesrved". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "preserves", "preserve", "presented", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is preserved, spelled P-R-E-S-E-R-V-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of preserve
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- perserved
- ppreserved
- preesrved
- preserevd
- preserrved
- preservde
- preservedd
- preservved
- presevred
- presreved
- presserved
- prreserved
- prseerved
- rpeserved
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of preserved - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "preserved", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).