surprised
/səˈpɹaɪzd/
"surprised" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“surprised” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #2,135 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #2,135
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Caused to feel surprise, amazement or wonder, or showing an emotion due to an unexpected event.
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 | surprised |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /səˈpɹaɪzd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “surprised” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for surprised is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /səˈpɹaɪzd/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,135 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Caused to feel surprise, amazement or wonder, or showing an emotion due to an unexpected event.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for surprised, with forms such as "sruprised", "ssurprised", and "suprrised". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "surprise", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is surprised, spelled S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Caused to feel surprise, amazement or wonder, or showing an emotion due to an unexpected event.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sruprised,ssurprised,suprrised,surpirsed,surpprised,surpriesd,surprisde,surprisedd,surprissed,surprrised,surprsied,surrpised,surrprised,usrprised
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surprised - 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.
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Using “surprised”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /səˈpɹaɪzd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “surprise” - see the side-by-side comparison. surprised vs surprise
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.