shoveled
"shoveled" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shoveled” is uncommon English (frequency #64,001 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,001
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of shovel
Corpus desk
Index EN-shoveled · shoveled · English
shoveled · rank #64,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,001
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shouldering
Nearest frequency peer: shouldering (-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 “shoveled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- shod
shod
36,003 corpus weight
- shor
shor
36,002 corpus weight
- shouldering
shouldering
36,001 corpus weight
- shoveled
shoveled
36,000 corpus weight
- Sikorski
Sikorski
35,998 corpus weight
- silverback
silverback
35,997 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shoveled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shoveled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shoveled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shoveled is uncommon English at frequency #64,001 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of shovel".
No misspelling variants are generated for shoveled in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is shoveled, spelled S-H-O-V-E-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of shovel
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shoveled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I shoveled the snow off of my sidewalk.
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).