shored
"shored" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shored” is uncommon English (frequency #83,748 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,748
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a shore, often one of a specified type.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shored · shored · English
shored · rank #83,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,748
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH showery
Nearest frequency peer: showery (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shored”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- shero
shero
16,256 corpus weight
- sherriff
sherriff
16,255 corpus weight
- shored
shored
16,253 corpus weight
- showery
showery
16,252 corpus weight
- showoff
showoff
16,251 corpus weight
- silty
silty
16,249 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shored” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shored |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shored” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shored is uncommon English at frequency #83,748 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having a shore, often one of a specified type.".
Zero misspellings are on record for shored in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From shore (“coast”) + -ed. The correct English form is shored, spelled S-H-O-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a shore, often one of a specified type.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shored appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the rocky-shored straits, a sandy-shored cove
Etymology
From shore (“coast”) + -ed.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.