regretted
/ɹɪˈɡɹɛtɪd/
"regretted" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“regretted” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,013. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,013
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of regret
Corpus desk
Index EN-regretted · regretted · English
regretted · rank #17,013 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,013
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH refining
Nearest frequency peer: refining (-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 “regretted”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ratified
ratified
82,991 corpus weight
- refining
refining
82,989 corpus weight
- regretted
regretted
82,988 corpus weight
- reliant
reliant
82,987 corpus weight
- reputable
reputable
82,986 corpus weight
- revolver
revolver
82,985 corpus weight
What this shows “regretted” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regretted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɹɪˈɡɹɛtɪd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “regretted”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around regretted (IPA /ɹɪˈɡɹɛtɪd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,013 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of regret".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for regretted, with forms such as "ergretted", "regertted", and "reggretted". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is regretted, spelled R-E-G-R-E-T-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of regret
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ergretted
- regertted
- reggretted
- regreted
- regretetd
- regrettde
- regrettedd
- regrretted
- regrteted
- rergetted
- rgeretted
- rregretted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of regretted - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).