struggled
/ˈstɹʌɡl̩d/
"struggled" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“struggled” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,066. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,066
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of struggle
Corpus desk
Index EN-struggled · struggled · English
struggled · rank #7,066 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,066
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH stark
Nearest frequency peer: stark (-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 “struggled”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- smallest
smallest
92,938 corpus weight
- specially
specially
92,937 corpus weight
- stark
stark
92,936 corpus weight
- struggled
struggled
92,935 corpus weight
- sympathy
sympathy
92,934 corpus weight
- tan
tan
92,933 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “struggled” 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 | struggled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈstɹʌɡl̩d/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “struggled” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around struggled (IPA /ˈstɹʌɡl̩d/), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,066 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of struggle".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for struggled, with forms such as "srtuggled", "sstruggled", and "strgugled". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "struggle", "shrugged", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is struggled, spelled S-T-R-U-G-G-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of struggle
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtuggled
- sstruggled
- strgugled
- strruggled
- struggeld
- strugglde
- struggledd
- strugglled
- strugled
- struglged
- sttruggled
- sturggled
- tsruggled
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of struggled - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "struggled", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).
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.