prowled
/pɹaʊld/
"prowled" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“prowled” is uncommon English (frequency #98,604 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,604
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of prowl
Corpus desk
Index EN-prowled · prowled · English
prowled · rank #98,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,604
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 46,516
- PHOTO-FINISH proteinase
Nearest frequency peer: proteinase (-3 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 “prowled”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- prophetical…
prophetically
1,401 corpus weight
- proteinase
proteinase
1,400 corpus weight
- prowled
prowled
1,397 corpus weight
- Ptah
Ptah
1,394 corpus weight
- publishable
publishable
1,392 corpus weight
- puce
puce
1,391 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “prowled” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prowled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɹaʊld/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prowled” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
prowled is uncommon English at frequency #98,604 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɹaʊld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of prowl".
No generated misspelling entries exist for prowled in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented 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 prowled, spelled P-R-O-W-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of prowl
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.