sneaked
"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
- skillfully
skillfully
64,484 corpus weight
- skylight
skylight
64,483 corpus weight
- sneaked
sneaked
64,480 corpus weight
- snip
snip
64,479 corpus weight
- sombre
sombre
64,478 corpus weight
- Sotheby's
Sotheby's
64,477 corpus weight
What this shows “sneaked” 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 | sneaked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sneaked”
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
- 1simple past and past participle of sneak
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sneaked appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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 "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).