shrugged
/ʃɹʌɡd/
"shrugged" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shrugged” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,953. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,953
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of shrug
Corpus desk
Index EN-shrugged · shrugged · English
shrugged · rank #18,953 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,953
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH shiva
Nearest frequency peer: shiva (-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 “shrugged”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- serie
serie
81,051 corpus weight
- shipbuilding
shipbuilding
81,050 corpus weight
- shiva
shiva
81,049 corpus weight
- shrugged
shrugged
81,048 corpus weight
- siemens
siemens
81,047 corpus weight
- slogans
slogans
81,045 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shrugged” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | shrugged |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʃɹʌɡd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,953 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shrugged” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around shrugged (IPA /ʃɹʌɡd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,953 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of shrug".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for shrugged, with forms such as "hsrugged", "shhrugged", and "shrguged". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "struggled", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is shrugged, spelled S-H-R-U-G-G-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of shrug
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsrugged
- shhrugged
- shrguged
- shrrugged
- shruged
- shrugegd
- shruggde
- shruggedd
- shurgged
- srhugged
- sshrugged
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shrugged - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "shrugged", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
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.