spayed
/speɪd/
"spayed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spayed” is uncommon English (frequency #52,011 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,011
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of spay
Corpus desk
Index EN-spayed · spayed · English
spayed · rank #52,011 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,011
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spaceport
Nearest frequency peer: spaceport (-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 “spayed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- snobby
snobby
47,995 corpus weight
- snowboarder
snowboarder
47,993 corpus weight
- sonics
sonics
47,992 corpus weight
- spaceport
spaceport
47,991 corpus weight
- spayed
spayed
47,990 corpus weight
- speedboat
speedboat
47,989 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spayed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spayed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /speɪd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spayed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spayed is uncommon English at frequency #52,011 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /speɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of spay".
spayed has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is spayed, spelled S-P-A-Y-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of spay
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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