sintered

verb

"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)

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.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sintered
PropertyValue
Headwordsintered
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters8
Frequency rank#80,890
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “sintered” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). sintered lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of sinter

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sintered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

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 September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sintered"?
"sintered" is spelled S-I-N-T-E-R-E-D.
What does "sintered" mean?
As a verb, "sintered" means: simple past and past participle of sinter
What language does "sintered" come from?
"sintered" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sintered", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list