put at ease
"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
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.
| 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
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
- 1To evoke or cause someone to be relaxed or calm.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how put at ease appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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