set free
"set-free" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“set free” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To release, to free, to give freedom to.
Corpus desk
Index EN-set-free · set free · English
set free · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | set free |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “set free” in English
Rare enough to double-check
set free is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To release, to free, to give freedom to.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for set free in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 set free, spelled S-E-T- -F-R-E-E.
Definition
- 1To release, to free, to give freedom to.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how set free appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Well, you can tell Nan that she won't marry Peter Mallory with my consent. I'll never set her free to be another man's wife."
Send it, send it / Just like it came to me / I'm gonna set it free / Send it, send it / You've got to let it go / Open up a window
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.