speared
"speared" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“speared” is uncommon English (frequency #59,721 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,721
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wielding a spear.
Corpus desk
Index EN-speared · speared · English
speared · rank #59,721 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,721
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spaz
Nearest frequency peer: spaz (-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 “speared”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- soundstage
soundstage
40,283 corpus weight
- spatter
spatter
40,282 corpus weight
- spaz
spaz
40,281 corpus weight
- speared
speared
40,280 corpus weight
- Springdale
Springdale
40,278 corpus weight
- SRO
SRO
40,276 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “speared” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | speared |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “speared” in English
Rare enough to double-check
speared is uncommon English at frequency #59,721 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wielding a spear.".
speared doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From spear + -ed. The correct English form is speared, spelled S-P-E-A-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Wielding a spear.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how speared appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I must add, that a speared horseman, who said he had been sent to kill us, demanded ransom. The soldier coming up mediated. We compromised and the man got his fee. Perhaps, having a horse and spear, he was doing a job on his own account: if not, he got double pay.
Taken any way one can, an army on paper is not a satisfactory profession. […] those who shape its destinies are so ready to direct it against matchlock monarchs and speared soldiery; […]
Etymology
From spear + -ed.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).