sneaked

verb

"sneaked" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“sneaked” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,521. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,521
frequency rank, English
6,566
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of sneak

Corpus desk

Index EN-sneaked · sneaked · English

sneaked · rank #35,521 · 10 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,521
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,566
  • PHOTO-FINISH snip

Nearest frequency peer: snip (+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 “sneaked”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “sneaked” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

sneaked vs soaked
71% similar
sneaked vs sneaky
71% similar
sneaked vs speaker
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for sneaked
PropertyValue
Headwordsneaked
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Frequency rank#35,521
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sneaked”

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).sneakedlands here:

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

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Same rarity band neighbours include “snip” (#35,522), “sombre” (#35,523), “skylight” (#35,518). Among 6,566 “S” headwords, “sneaked” is #35,521. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around sneaked, averb. Corpus frequency is #35,521 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of sneak".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sneaked, with forms such as "nseaked", "senaked", and "snaeked". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "soaked", "sneaky", "speaker", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is sneaked, spelled S-N-E-A-K-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of sneak

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. In addition to my sneaked food, Eddit had sneaked a chunk of roast beef, a slice of fried ham, three wieners, some cheese, an onion, several quart jars of fruit, a jar of dill pickles, and a jar of canned rabbit.
  2. The restaurant opened at six, and he sneaked down for coffee, then sneaked back to his room.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • nseaked
  • senaked
  • snaeked
  • sneaekd
  • sneakde
  • sneakedd
  • sneakked
  • snekaed
  • snneaked
  • ssneaked

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sneaked - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

nseaked2senaked2snaeked2sneaekd2sneakde2sneakedd1sneakked1snekaed2
Edit distance from "sneaked"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sneaked"?
"sneaked" is spelled S-N-E-A-K-E-D.
What does "sneaked" mean?
As a verb, "sneaked" means: simple past and past participle of sneak
What words are commonly confused with "sneaked"?
"sneaked" is commonly confused with "soaked", "sneaky", "speaker". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "sneaked" come from?
"sneaked" 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 "sneaked", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list