scratched
/skɹæt͡ʃt/
"scratched" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scratched” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,266. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,266
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Produced by scratching.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scratched · scratched · English
scratched · rank #15,266 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,266
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Scotia
Nearest frequency peer: Scotia (-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 “scratched”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sanity
sanity
84,738 corpus weight
- Scandinavian
Scandinavian
84,737 corpus weight
- Scotia
Scotia
84,736 corpus weight
- scratched
scratched
84,735 corpus weight
- ser
ser
84,733 corpus weight
- Sergei
Sergei
84,732 corpus weight
What this shows “scratched” 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 | scratched |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /skɹæt͡ʃt/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “scratched”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around scratched (IPA /skɹæt͡ʃt/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,266 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Produced by scratching.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for scratched, with forms such as "csratched", "scartched", and "sccratched". 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. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "snatched", "scratchy", "stretched", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is scratched, spelled S-C-R-A-T-C-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1Produced by scratching.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scratched appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My Lord, my thanks; but theſe ſcratcht limbs of mine have ſpoke my love and truth unto my friends, more than my tongue ere could: my mind's the ſame it ever was to you; where I find worth, I love the keeper, till he let it go, And then I follow it.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csratched
- scartched
- sccratched
- scracthed
- scratcched
- scratcehd
- scratchde
- scratchedd
- scratchhed
- scrathced
- scrattched
- scrratched
- scrtached
- srcatched
- sscratched
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scratched - 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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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 (15 here; floor ≥5).