pried
/pɹaɪd/
"pried" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pried” is uncommon English (frequency #60,392 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,392
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of pry
Corpus desk
Index EN-pried · pried · English
pried · rank #60,392 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,392
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Prieto
Nearest frequency peer: Prieto (+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 “pried”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- precipitous…
precipitously
39,612 corpus weight
- preheated
preheated
39,611 corpus weight
- pried
pried
39,609 corpus weight
- Prieto
Prieto
39,608 corpus weight
- probity
probity
39,606 corpus weight
- proboscis
proboscis
39,605 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pried” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pried |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɹaɪd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pried” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pried is uncommon English at frequency #60,392 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɹaɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of pry".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pried, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is pried, spelled P-R-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of pry
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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