sweated
"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
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streptococcus
48,577 corpus weight
- subroutine
subroutine
48,576 corpus weight
- succubus
succubus
48,575 corpus weight
- supervillain
supervillain
48,574 corpus weight
- sweated
sweated
48,573 corpus weight
- taa
taa
48,569 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sweated” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sweated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sweated” in English
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
- 1Characterized by sweatshop conditions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sweated appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“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.”
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.
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