suspended
/səˈspɛndɪd/
"suspended" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“suspended” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #4,193. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,193
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed.
Corpus desk
Index EN-suspended · suspended · English
suspended · rank #4,193 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,193
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH technologies
Nearest frequency peer: technologies (+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 “suspended”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- submitted
submitted
95,811 corpus weight
- sufficient
sufficient
95,810 corpus weight
- suspended
suspended
95,808 corpus weight
- technologies
technologies
95,807 corpus weight
- tissue
tissue
95,806 corpus weight
- trailer
trailer
95,805 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “suspended” 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 | suspended |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /səˈspɛndɪd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “suspended” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around suspended (IPA /səˈspɛndɪd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,193 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for suspended, with forms such as "ssupended", "ssuspended", and "supsended". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "suspense", "suspenders", "suspend", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is suspended, spelled S-U-S-P-E-N-D-E-D.
Definition
- 1Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed.
- 2Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed.
- 3Hung from above.
- 4Attached slightly below the summit of the ovary.
- 5Paid for but not consumed by a customer, so that it can be given to a less fortunate person.
- 6A chemical suspension
- 7Having had its third omitted and replaced with a major second or perfect fourth.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how suspended appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There are already strong indications that the relatively high cost of one fully suspended motor with flexible drive to both bogie axles [...] is not much lower than the cost of two fully suspended motors; [...].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ssupended
- ssuspended
- supsended
- susepnded
- suspedned
- suspendde
- suspendded
- suspendedd
- suspenedd
- suspennded
- suspneded
- susppended
- susspended
- usspended
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of suspended - 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 "suspended", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "suspended" maps to 4 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "suspense". View pair
- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #4,193 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
- PlainSpell rotates a curated Word of the Day from the English corpus, a passive way to discover vocabulary. Word of the Day
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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.