shadowed
"shadowed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shadowed” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,510. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,510
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Depicted with shading, as if showing areas in shadow.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shadowed · shadowed · English
shadowed · rank #35,510 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,510
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shad
Nearest frequency peer: shad (-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 “shadowed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- seton
seton
64,493 corpus weight
- shad
shad
64,492 corpus weight
- shadowed
shadowed
64,491 corpus weight
- shadowing
shadowing
64,490 corpus weight
- Shiite
Shiite
64,489 corpus weight
- Shiraz
Shiraz
64,488 corpus weight
What this shows “shadowed” 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 | shadowed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “shadowed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around shadowed, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,510 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Depicted with shading, as if showing areas in shadow.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for shadowed, with forms such as "hsadowed", "sahdowed", and "shaddowed". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "showed", "shadows", "shadowy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is shadowed, spelled S-H-A-D-O-W-E-D.
Definition
- 1Depicted with shading, as if showing areas in shadow.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shadowed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[...] 2d and 3d Gules, a Man's Heart proper, Shadowed Or, betwixt three Cinquefoils Ermine, for Hamilton […]
The supporters have rede collares about there nekes "bordered with gold, and are vert" shadowed gules and blew, proper, like parates.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsadowed
- sahdowed
- shaddowed
- shadoewd
- shadowde
- shadowedd
- shadowwed
- shadwoed
- shaodwed
- shdaowed
- shhadowed
- sshadowed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shadowed - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "shadowed", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).