reddened
"reddened" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reddened” is uncommon English (frequency #81,755 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,755
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Made red.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reddened · reddened · English
reddened · rank #81,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,755
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH recut
Nearest frequency peer: recut (-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 “reddened”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- reck
reck
18,250 corpus weight
- recode
recode
18,249 corpus weight
- recut
recut
18,247 corpus weight
- reddened
reddened
18,246 corpus weight
- Reddington
Reddington
18,245 corpus weight
- reflexology
reflexology
18,244 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “reddened” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | reddened |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “reddened” in English
Rare enough to double-check
reddened is uncommon English at frequency #81,755 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Made red.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for reddened in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is reddened, spelled R-E-D-D-E-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1Made red.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how reddened appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Her reddened face told me she was angry.
The reddened western sky was taken as an omen of changing weather.
Antonyms
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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