ravished
/ˈɹæ.vɪʃt/
"ravished" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ravished” is uncommon English (frequency #85,690 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,690
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of ravish
Corpus desk
Index EN-ravished · ravished · English
ravished · rank #85,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,690
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rattray
Nearest frequency peer: Rattray (-2 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 “ravished”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ramus
ramus
14,315 corpus weight
- Rastafarian
Rastafarian
14,314 corpus weight
- Rattray
Rattray
14,313 corpus weight
- ravished
ravished
14,311 corpus weight
- reanimate
reanimate
14,308 corpus weight
- reawakened
reawakened
14,306 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ravished” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ravished |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɹæ.vɪʃt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ravished” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ravished is uncommon English at frequency #85,690 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈɹæ.vɪʃt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of ravish".
No misspelling variants are generated for ravished in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is ravished, spelled R-A-V-I-S-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of ravish
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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