repaired
/ɹɪˈpɛɹd/
"repaired" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“repaired” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,119. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,119
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of repair
Corpus desk
Index EN-repaired · repaired · English
repaired · rank #10,119 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,119
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH remarkably
Nearest frequency peer: remarkably (-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 “repaired”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- registry
registry
89,885 corpus weight
- relieve
relieve
89,884 corpus weight
- remarkably
remarkably
89,883 corpus weight
- repaired
repaired
89,882 corpus weight
- rotating
rotating
89,881 corpus weight
- sandwiches
sandwiches
89,879 corpus weight
What this shows “repaired” 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 | repaired |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɹɪˈpɛɹd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “repaired”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around repaired (IPA /ɹɪˈpɛɹd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,119 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of repair".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for repaired, with forms such as "erpaired", "reapired", and "repaierd". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "retired", "replied", "required", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is repaired, spelled R-E-P-A-I-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of repair
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how repaired appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I repaired your automobile for you.
We repaired to the mountains for the summer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erpaired
- reapired
- repaierd
- repairde
- repairedd
- repairred
- reparied
- repiared
- reppaired
- rpeaired
- rrepaired
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of repaired - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "repaired", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).