scuffed
"scuffed" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scuffed” is uncommon English (frequency #51,981 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,981
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of scuff
Corpus desk
Index EN-scuffed · scuffed · English
scuffed · rank #51,981 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,981
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH scrawled
Nearest frequency peer: scrawled (-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 “scuffed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- 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
- Septuagint
Septuagint
48,016 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “scuffed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scuffed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “scuffed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
scuffed is uncommon English at frequency #51,981 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "past participle of scuff".
No misspelling variants are generated for scuffed in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 scuffed, spelled S-C-U-F-F-E-D.
Definition
- 1past participle of scuff
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how scuffed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I scuffed my shoe on the door.
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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