sped
/spɛd/
"sped" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sped” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #20,782. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,782
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of speed
Corpus desk
Index EN-sped · sped · English
sped · rank #20,782 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,782
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH SPD
Nearest frequency peer: SPD (-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 “sped”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- snoring
snoring
79,223 corpus weight
- sorority
sorority
79,221 corpus weight
- SPD
SPD
79,220 corpus weight
- sped
sped
79,219 corpus weight
- speechless
speechless
79,218 corpus weight
- spurred
spurred
79,216 corpus weight
What this shows “sped” 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 | sped |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /spɛd/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sped”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around sped (IPA /spɛd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,782 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of speed".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sped, with forms such as "psed", "sepd", and "spde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "spy", "sue", "STD", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 sped, spelled S-P-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of speed
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psed
- sepd
- spde
- spedd
- spped
- ssped
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sped - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "sped", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).