sympathised
"sympathised" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sympathised” is uncommon English (frequency #85,836 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,836
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of sympathise
Corpus desk
Index EN-sympathised · sympathised · English
sympathised · rank #85,836 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,836
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Tagus
Nearest frequency peer: Tagus (+2 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 “sympathised”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- surmounting
surmounting
14,170 corpus weight
- suzerainty
suzerainty
14,169 corpus weight
- sympathised
sympathised
14,165 corpus weight
- Tagus
Tagus
14,163 corpus weight
- Taiwo
Taiwo
14,161 corpus weight
- Talwar
Talwar
14,159 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sympathised” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sympathised |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sympathised” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sympathised is uncommon English at frequency #85,836 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of sympathise".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sympathised, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is sympathised, spelled S-Y-M-P-A-T-H-I-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of sympathise
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sympathised appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To those who have sympathised in the energy and daring of earlier life, it seems marvellous to hear him mentioned in the gentle language of one of Madame de Sevigné's letters, where he is spoken of as a peculiarly mild and gentlemanlike old man, especially kind to the young, whose society he seemed to enjoy.
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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