purred

/pɜːd/

//pɜːd// verb

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"purred" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“purred” is uncommon English (frequency #70,182 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,182
frequency rank, English
46,516
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of purr

Key facts for purred
PropertyValue
Headwordpurred
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
IPA/pɜːd/
Letters6
Frequency rank#70,182
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “purred” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). purred lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

purred is uncommon English at frequency #70,182 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɜːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of purr".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for purred, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is purred, spelled P-U-R-R-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of purr

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "purred"?
"purred" is spelled P-U-R-R-E-D. The IPA pronunciation is /pɜːd/.
What does "purred" mean?
As a verb, "purred" means: simple past and past participle of purr
How do you pronounce "purred"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "purred" is /pɜːd/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "purred" come from?
"purred" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “purred”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is P-U-R-R-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as /pɜːd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this 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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list