ruffed
/ɹʌft/
"ruffed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ruffed” is uncommon English (frequency #84,703 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,703
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of ruff
Corpus desk
Index EN-ruffed · ruffed · English
ruffed · rank #84,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,703
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH RWA
Nearest frequency peer: RWA (+3 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 “ruffed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Roquefort
Roquefort
15,304 corpus weight
- rosella
rosella
15,303 corpus weight
- rotorcraft
rotorcraft
15,302 corpus weight
- ruffed
ruffed
15,298 corpus weight
- RWA
RWA
15,295 corpus weight
- Sackler
Sackler
15,293 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ruffed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ruffed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɹʌft/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ruffed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ruffed is uncommon English at frequency #84,703 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ɹʌft/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of ruff".
No misspelling variants are generated for ruffed in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is ruffed, spelled R-U-F-F-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of ruff
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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