spelled
/ˈspɛld/
"spelled" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spelled” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,819
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of spell
Corpus desk
Index EN-spelled · spelled · English
spelled · rank #9,819 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,819
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spokesman
Nearest frequency peer: spokesman (+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 “spelled”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- shrimp
shrimp
90,186 corpus weight
- skins
skins
90,184 corpus weight
- spelled
spelled
90,182 corpus weight
- spokesman
spokesman
90,181 corpus weight
- Springfield
Springfield
90,180 corpus weight
- stained
stained
90,179 corpus weight
What this shows “spelled” 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 | spelled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈspɛld/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “spelled”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around spelled (IPA /ˈspɛld/), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,819 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of spell".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for spelled, with forms such as "pselled", "seplled", and "speled". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "spoiled", "swelled", "speed", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 spelled, spelled S-P-E-L-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of spell
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pselled
- seplled
- speled
- speleld
- spellde
- spelledd
- spleled
- sppelled
- sspelled
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spelled - 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 "spelled", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).