scrawled
"scrawled" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scrawled” is uncommon English (frequency #51,980 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,980
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having been written in a rapid and sloppy manner.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scrawled · scrawled · English
scrawled · rank #51,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,980
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH schmuck
Nearest frequency peer: schmuck (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “scrawled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sauté
sauté
48,025 corpus weight
- schmuck
schmuck
48,022 corpus weight
- scrawled
scrawled
48,021 corpus weight
- scuffed
scuffed
48,020 corpus weight
- Seaford
Seaford
48,019 corpus weight
- sensational…
sensationalism
48,017 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “scrawled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scrawled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #51,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “scrawled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
scrawled is uncommon English at frequency #51,980 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having been written in a rapid and sloppy manner.".
scrawled doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is scrawled, spelled S-C-R-A-W-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having been written in a rapid and sloppy manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scrawled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The doctor's scrawled signature was almost unreadable.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).