scrubbed
"scrubbed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scrubbed” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #28,712. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,712
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of scrub
Corpus desk
Index EN-scrubbed · scrubbed · English
scrubbed · rank #28,712 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,712
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH schism
Nearest frequency peer: schism (-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 “scrubbed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- scala
scala
71,292 corpus weight
- schism
schism
71,290 corpus weight
- scrubbed
scrubbed
71,289 corpus weight
- seer
seer
71,288 corpus weight
- sepsis
sepsis
71,287 corpus weight
- Seward
Seward
71,286 corpus weight
What this shows “scrubbed” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scrubbed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “scrubbed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around scrubbed, averb. Corpus frequency is #28,712 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of scrub".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for scrubbed, with forms such as "csrubbed", "sccrubbed", and "scrbubed". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From scrub + -ed. The correct English form is scrubbed, spelled S-C-R-U-B-B-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of scrub
Etymology
From scrub + -ed.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csrubbed
- sccrubbed
- scrbubed
- scrrubbed
- scrubbde
- scrubbedd
- scrubebd
- scrubed
- scurbbed
- srcubbed
- sscrubbed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scrubbed - 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
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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).