ratted
"ratted" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ratted” is uncommon English (frequency #71,833 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,833
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - intoxicated; drunk
Corpus desk
Index EN-ratted · ratted · English
ratted · rank #71,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,833
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rashida
Nearest frequency peer: Rashida (-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 “ratted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Rashida
Rashida
28,169 corpus weight
- ratted
ratted
28,168 corpus weight
- readjustment
readjustment
28,167 corpus weight
- recirculati…
recirculation
28,164 corpus weight
- recto
recto
28,163 corpus weight
- Redhill
Redhill
28,162 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ratted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ratted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ratted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ratted is uncommon English at frequency #71,833 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "intoxicated; drunk".
ratted has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Contraction of rat-arsed. The correct English form is ratted, spelled R-A-T-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1intoxicated; drunk
Etymology
Contraction of rat-arsed.
Synonyms
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).