staggered
"staggered" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“staggered” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,226. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,226
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of stagger
Corpus desk
Index EN-staggered · staggered · English
staggered · rank #22,226 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #22,226
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH SSD
Nearest frequency peer: SSD (-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 “staggered”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- smiths
smiths
77,779 corpus weight
- soma
soma
77,778 corpus weight
- someones
someones
77,777 corpus weight
- SSD
SSD
77,776 corpus weight
- staggered
staggered
77,775 corpus weight
- stemmed
stemmed
77,772 corpus weight
What this shows “staggered” 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 | staggered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #22,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “staggered”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around staggered, averb. Corpus frequency is #22,226 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of stagger".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for staggered, with forms such as "satggered", "sstaggered", and "stagegred". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "stagger", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 staggered, spelled S-T-A-G-G-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of stagger
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how staggered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The drunk staggered to the end of the bar before he collapsed.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satggered
- sstaggered
- stagegred
- stagered
- staggeerd
- staggerde
- staggeredd
- staggerred
- staggreed
- stgagered
- sttaggered
- tsaggered
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of staggered - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "staggered", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).