quarried

adj

"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

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “quarried” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for quarried
PropertyValue
Headwordquarried
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters8
Frequency rank#53,796
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “quarried” in English

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

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “Puente” (#53,795), “psychopathy” (#53,793), “Prue” (#53,792). Among 288 “Q” headwords, “quarried” is #53,796. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Provided with quarry or prey.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "quarried"?
"quarried" is spelled Q-U-A-R-R-I-E-D.
What does "quarried" mean?
As an adjective, "quarried" means: Provided with quarry or prey.
What language does "quarried" come from?
"quarried" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quarried", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list