scampered
"scampered" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scampered” is uncommon English (frequency #74,482 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,482
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Achieved by a scampering motion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scampered · scampered · English
scampered · rank #74,482 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,482
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Savoie
Nearest frequency peer: Savoie (-2 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 “scampered”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Sakshi
Sakshi
25,527 corpus weight
- Saltzman
Saltzman
25,525 corpus weight
- Savoie
Savoie
25,521 corpus weight
- scampered
scampered
25,519 corpus weight
- scrapper
scrapper
25,517 corpus weight
- seely
seely
25,512 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “scampered” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scampered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “scampered” in English
Rare enough to double-check
scampered is uncommon English at frequency #74,482 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Achieved by a scampering motion.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for scampered, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is scampered, spelled S-C-A-M-P-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Achieved by a scampering motion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scampered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Constantine pushed him through mid-off for a quickly scampered single.
The second ball was pushed to mid-off for a scampered single.
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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