pulverised
"pulverised" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pulverised” is uncommon English (frequency #93,050 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,050
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of pulverise
Corpus desk
Index EN-pulverised · pulverised · English
pulverised · rank #93,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,050
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 46,516
- PHOTO-FINISH pube
Nearest frequency peer: pube (-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 “pulverised”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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What this shows Bars show where “pulverised” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pulverised |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pulverised” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pulverised is uncommon English at frequency #93,050 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of pulverise".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pulverised, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is pulverised, spelled P-U-L-V-E-R-I-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of pulverise
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pulverised appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The experiment was abandoned when one fine day spontaneous combustion of the pulverised coal in the container occurred, and a black cloud of the very finely divided fuel rose into the air by the force of the explosion, and was slowly wafted by the prevailing breeze over the town, upon which it descended with the resemblance of black snow, but with the dis…
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 10 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.