quarried
"quarried" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quarried” is uncommon English (frequency #53,796 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,796
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Provided with quarry or prey.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quarried · quarried · English
quarried · rank #53,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,796
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH Puente
Nearest frequency peer: Puente (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “quarried”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- PRP
PRP
46,210 corpus weight
- Prue
Prue
46,209 corpus weight
- psychopathy
psychopathy
46,208 corpus weight
- Puente
Puente
46,206 corpus weight
- quarried
quarried
46,205 corpus weight
- radially
radially
46,201 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “quarried” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarried |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “quarried” in English
Rare enough to double-check
quarried is uncommon English at frequency #53,796 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Provided with quarry or prey.".
Zero misspellings are on record for quarried in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is quarried, spelled Q-U-A-R-R-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Provided with quarry or prey.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quarried appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Now I am bravely quarried.
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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).