protested
/pɹəˈtɛstɪd/
"protested" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“protested” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,220. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,220
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of protest
Corpus desk
Index EN-protested · protested · English
protested · rank #13,220 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,220
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH raced
Nearest frequency peer: raced (+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 “protested”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- PRATT
PRATT
86,784 corpus weight
- precautions
precautions
86,783 corpus weight
- protested
protested
86,781 corpus weight
- raced
raced
86,780 corpus weight
- Raleigh
Raleigh
86,779 corpus weight
- readiness
readiness
86,778 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “protested” 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 | protested |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɹəˈtɛstɪd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “protested” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around protested (IPA /pɹəˈtɛstɪd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,220 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of protest".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for protested, with forms such as "portested", "pprotested", and "proetsted". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "protester", "protest", "protected", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is protested, spelled P-R-O-T-E-S-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of protest
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- portested
- pprotested
- proetsted
- protesetd
- protessted
- protestde
- protestedd
- protestted
- protetsed
- protseted
- prottested
- prrotested
- prtoested
- rpotested
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of protested - 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
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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).
What to do next
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- "protested" maps to 6 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "protester". View pair
- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #13,220 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.