sweated

adj

"sweated" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“sweated” is uncommon English (frequency #51,428 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,428
frequency rank, English
6,566
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Characterized by sweatshop conditions.

Corpus desk

Index EN-sweated · sweated · English

sweated · rank #51,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,428
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,566
  • PHOTO-FINISH supervillain

Nearest frequency peer: supervillain (-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.

Long-tail ranks near “sweated”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “sweated” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sweated
PropertyValue
Headwordsweated
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#51,428
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “sweated” in English

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).sweatedfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “supervillain” (#51,427), “succubus” (#51,426), “subroutine” (#51,425). Among 6,566 “S” headwords, “sweated” is #51,428. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sweated is uncommon English at frequency #51,428 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Characterized by sweatshop conditions.".

sweated doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is sweated, spelled S-W-E-A-T-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Characterized by sweatshop conditions.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how sweated appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. “Do you like jennying?” he asked. “What can a woman do!” she replied bitterly. “Is it sweated?” “More or less. Isn’t all woman’s work? That’s another trick the men have played, since we force ourselves into the labour market.”
  2. So long as the African slave-trade lasted, the importation of slaves being presumably cheaper than breeding them, the industries run by slave labor were economically in much the same position as our own sweated trades […]

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sweated"?
"sweated" is spelled S-W-E-A-T-E-D.
What does "sweated" mean?
As an adjective, "sweated" means: Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
What language does "sweated" come from?
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sweated", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list