smudged
"smudged" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“smudged” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,053. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,053
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blurred as by being rubbed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-smudged · smudged · English
smudged · rank #49,053 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,053
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH smock
Nearest frequency peer: smock (-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 “smudged”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sifted
sifted
50,952 corpus weight
- skydive
skydive
50,951 corpus weight
- smock
smock
50,949 corpus weight
- smudged
smudged
50,948 corpus weight
- SNA
SNA
50,947 corpus weight
- soca
soca
50,944 corpus weight
What this shows “smudged” 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 | smudged |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “smudged”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around smudged, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,053 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Blurred as by being rubbed.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for smudged, with forms such as "msudged", "smduged", and "smmudged". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "surged", "studied", "studded", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is smudged, spelled S-M-U-D-G-E-D.
Definition
- 1Blurred as by being rubbed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how smudged appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a smudged chalk drawing
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- msudged
- smduged
- smmudged
- smuddged
- smudegd
- smudgde
- smudgedd
- smudgged
- smugded
- ssmudged
- sumdged
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smudged - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "smudged", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).