sneered
/snɪə̯d/
"sneered" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sneered” is uncommon English (frequency #60,478 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,478
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of sneer
Corpus desk
Index EN-sneered · sneered · English
sneered · rank #60,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,478
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH smugly
Nearest frequency peer: smugly (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “sneered”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- slithering
slithering
39,528 corpus weight
- smoot
smoot
39,525 corpus weight
- smugly
smugly
39,524 corpus weight
- sneered
sneered
39,523 corpus weight
- softcover
softcover
39,521 corpus weight
- soiling
soiling
39,520 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sneered” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sneered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /snɪə̯d/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sneered” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sneered is uncommon English at frequency #60,478 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /snɪə̯d/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of sneer".
sneered doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is sneered, spelled S-N-E-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of sneer
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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