quenched
"quenched" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quenched” is uncommon English (frequency #55,043 among 2,880 “Q” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,043
- frequency rank, English
- 2,880
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of quench
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quenched |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quenched” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
quenched is uncommon English at frequency #55,043 among 2,880 “Q” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of quench".
Zero misspellings are on record for quenched in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is quenched, spelled Q-U-E-N-C-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of quench
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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Using “quenched”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Q-U-E-N-C-H-E-D - 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.