stoned
/stəʊnd/
"stoned" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stoned” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,518. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,518
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of stone
Corpus desk
Index EN-stoned · stoned · English
stoned · rank #15,518 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,518
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Stirling
Nearest frequency peer: Stirling (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “stoned”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- squat
squat
84,486 corpus weight
- stew
stew
84,485 corpus weight
- Stirling
Stirling
84,484 corpus weight
- stoned
stoned
84,483 corpus weight
- Strauss
Strauss
84,482 corpus weight
- styling
styling
84,480 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “stoned” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | stoned |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /stəʊnd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stoned” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around stoned (IPA /stəʊnd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,518 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of stone".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for stoned, with forms such as "sotned", "sstoned", and "stnoed". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "store", "stood", "stove", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English stoned (simple past) and stoned, istoned (past participle), equivalent to stone + -ed. The etymology for the sense of "exhilarated, intoxicated by substances", which originated in American English in the mid-20th century, is not fully cl… The correct English form is stoned, spelled S-T-O-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of stone
Etymology
From Middle English stoned (simple past) and stoned, istoned (past participle), equivalent to stone + -ed. The etymology for the sense of "exhilarated, intoxicated by substances", which originated in American English in the mid-20th century, is not fully clear. It could be derived from stone drunk, a common slang expression from the mid-19th to early-20th century. It is more frequently theorized to be a phono-semantic matching of Italian-American slang stunod (“dazzled, stupid”), from Italian stonato (“out of tune, off-key”). In 1952, Life Magazine listed it in a glossary of bop musician slang, in the sense of "drunk, captivated, ecstatic, sent out of this world" (see quote). This could lend further credence to the idea of the word originating from a musical term.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sotned
- sstoned
- stnoed
- stoend
- stonde
- stonedd
- stonned
- sttoned
- tsoned
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stoned - 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 "stoned", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "stoned" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "store". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #15,518 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.