sheared
/ˈʃiɹd/
"sheared" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sheared” is uncommon English (frequency #52,625 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,625
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of shear
Corpus desk
Index EN-sheared · sheared · English
sheared · rank #52,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,625
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH separable
Nearest frequency peer: separable (-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 “sheared”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Selene
Selene
47,379 corpus weight
- senescence
senescence
47,378 corpus weight
- separable
separable
47,377 corpus weight
- sheared
sheared
47,376 corpus weight
- shied
shied
47,375 corpus weight
- shortwave
shortwave
47,374 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sheared” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sheared |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈʃiɹd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sheared” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sheared is uncommon English at frequency #52,625 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈʃiɹd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of shear".
sheared has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is sheared, spelled S-H-E-A-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of shear
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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