redacted
"redacted" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“redacted” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,264. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,264
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Edited or censored.
Corpus desk
Index EN-redacted · redacted · English
redacted · rank #27,264 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,264
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH RCMP
Nearest frequency peer: RCMP (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “redacted”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- quizzes
quizzes
72,741 corpus weight
- rarer
rarer
72,739 corpus weight
- RCMP
RCMP
72,738 corpus weight
- redacted
redacted
72,737 corpus weight
- regretting
regretting
72,736 corpus weight
- renovate
renovate
72,734 corpus weight
What this shows “redacted” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | redacted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “redacted”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around redacted, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,264 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Edited or censored.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for redacted, with forms such as "erdacted", "rdeacted", and "readcted". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "related", "reduced", "rejected", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is redacted, spelled R-E-D-A-C-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Edited or censored.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how redacted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The government released the redacted document, so most of it was blacked out as secret.
In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care p…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erdacted
- rdeacted
- readcted
- redaccted
- redacetd
- redactde
- redactedd
- redactted
- redatced
- redcated
- reddacted
- rredacted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of redacted - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "redacted", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).