signed
/saɪnd/
"signed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“signed” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,503. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,503
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a signature; endorsed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-signed · signed · English
signed · rank #1,503 · 9 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,503
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH serve
Nearest frequency peer: serve (-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 “signed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- royal
royal
98,501 corpus weight
- screen
screen
98,500 corpus weight
- serve
serve
98,499 corpus weight
- signed
signed
98,498 corpus weight
- slow
slow
98,497 corpus weight
- species
species
98,496 corpus weight
What this shows “signed” 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 | signed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /saɪnd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “signed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around signed (IPA /saɪnd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,503 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for signed, with forms such as "isgned", "sgined", and "sigend". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "sine", "signs", "sized", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is signed, spelled S-I-G-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a signature; endorsed.
- 2Having both positive and negative varieties.
- 3Furnished with signs and signposts; signposted.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how signed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The signed check could be cashed.
It wasn't until they tried to subtract 3 from 1 that the elementary school students realized they needed signed numbers.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isgned
- sgined
- sigend
- siggned
- signde
- signedd
- signned
- singed
- ssigned
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of signed - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).