put at ease
"put-at-ease" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“put at ease” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To evoke or cause someone to be relaxed or calm.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | put at ease |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “put at ease” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for put at ease is 11 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
- 1To evoke or cause someone to be relaxed or calm.
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.
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Using “put at ease”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-U-T- -A-T- -E-A-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.