sung
/sʌŋ/
"sung" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sung” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,213. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,213
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of sing
Corpus desk
Index EN-sung · sung · English
sung · rank #8,213 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,213
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH suburban
Nearest frequency peer: suburban (-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 “sung”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- stamps
stamps
91,791 corpus weight
- stare
stare
91,790 corpus weight
- suburban
suburban
91,789 corpus weight
- sung
sung
91,788 corpus weight
- terribly
terribly
91,785 corpus weight
- territorial
territorial
91,784 corpus weight
What this shows “sung” 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 | sung |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /sʌŋ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sung”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around sung (IPA /sʌŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,213 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for sung, with forms such as "ssung", "sugn", and "sungg". 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, "SUV", "sup", "Sus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is sung, spelled S-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1past participle of sing
- 2simple past of sing
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sung appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders, and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Lulled by the Syren-song that my own heart sung to me, with eyes shut to all sight, and ears closed to all sound of danger, I drifted nearer and nearer to the fatal rocks.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ssung
- sugn
- sungg
- sunng
- usng
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sung - 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 "sung", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).