spirited
/ˈspɪɹɪtɪd/
"spirited" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spirited” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,027. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,027
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of spirit
Corpus desk
Index EN-spirited · spirited · English
spirited · rank #14,027 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,027
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spices
Nearest frequency peer: spices (-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 “spirited”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- slid
slid
85,977 corpus weight
- spices
spices
85,975 corpus weight
- spirited
spirited
85,974 corpus weight
- spirituality
spirituality
85,973 corpus weight
- spoiler
spoiler
85,972 corpus weight
- suitcase
suitcase
85,971 corpus weight
What this shows “spirited” 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 | spirited |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈspɪɹɪtɪd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “spirited”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around spirited (IPA /ˈspɪɹɪtɪd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,027 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of spirit".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for spirited, with forms such as "psirited", "siprited", and "spiirted". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "sprite", "spirits", "sprites", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is spirited, spelled S-P-I-R-I-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of spirit
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spirited appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When I was young and full of grace I spirited a rattlesnake
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psirited
- siprited
- spiirted
- spirietd
- spiritde
- spiritedd
- spiritted
- spirrited
- spirtied
- sppirited
- spriited
- sspirited
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spirited - 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 "spirited", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).