put at ease

verb

"put-at-ease" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“put at ease” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To evoke or cause someone to be relaxed or calm.

Corpus desk

Index EN-put-at-ease · put at ease · English

put at ease · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for put at ease
PropertyValue
Headwordput at ease
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “put at ease” sits in English frequency

put at easeranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

put at ease is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To evoke or cause someone to be relaxed or calm.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for put at ease, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

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 put at ease, spelled P-U-T- -A-T- -E-A-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    To evoke or cause someone to be relaxed or calm.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how put at ease appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The new safety data really put my mind at ease over buying this car.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "put at ease"?
"put at ease" is spelled P-U-T- -A-T- -E-A-S-E.
What does "put at ease" mean?
As a verb, "put at ease" means: To evoke or cause someone to be relaxed or calm.
What language does "put at ease" come from?
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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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list