sintered
"sintered" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sintered” is uncommon English (frequency #80,890 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,890
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of sinter
Corpus desk
Index EN-sintered · sintered · English
sintered · rank #80,890 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,890
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sinfonia
Nearest frequency peer: sinfonia (-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 “sintered”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Simpkins
Simpkins
19,113 corpus weight
- sinfonia
sinfonia
19,112 corpus weight
- sintered
sintered
19,111 corpus weight
- skink
skink
19,109 corpus weight
- slashdot
slashdot
19,108 corpus weight
- slimmest
slimmest
19,106 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sintered” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sintered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sintered” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sintered is uncommon English at frequency #80,890 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of sinter".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sintered, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is sintered, spelled S-I-N-T-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of sinter
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sintered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When the works are in full production about 50 trains in and out will be needed daily for the conveyance of imported and home-produced ore, coal, oil, dolomite, limestone, slabs, ingot moulds and so on into the works and for the clearance of empty wagons and transport of sintered ore, slabs, steel sheets and other products.
2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 7, The heavy, dark tungsten powder would be pressed, hammered, sintered at red heat, then drawn into finer and finer wire for the filaments.
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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