spoofed
"spoofed" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spoofed” is uncommon English (frequency #58,379 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,379
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of spoof
Corpus desk
Index EN-spoofed · spoofed · English
spoofed · rank #58,379 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,379
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH speculator
Nearest frequency peer: speculator (-2 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 “spoofed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Somalian
Somalian
41,626 corpus weight
- soundwave
soundwave
41,625 corpus weight
- speculator
speculator
41,624 corpus weight
- spoofed
spoofed
41,622 corpus weight
- squawk
squawk
41,620 corpus weight
- squier
squier
41,619 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “spoofed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | spoofed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,379 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “spoofed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
spoofed is uncommon English at frequency #58,379 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of spoof".
spoofed doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is spoofed, spelled S-P-O-O-F-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of spoof
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spoofed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
2005: Nowhere in “Spamalot” is traditional stage naturalism more brilliantly spoofed than when King Arthur and his faithful servant, the well-named Patsy (the excellent Michael McGrath), first ride into view. — The New Yorker, 28 March 2005
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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