tailored
"tailored" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tailored” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,821. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,821
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adjusted by a tailor, fitted.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tailored · tailored · English
tailored · rank #13,821 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,821
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH sweaty
Nearest frequency peer: sweaty (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “tailored”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sup
sup
86,183 corpus weight
- superficial
superficial
86,182 corpus weight
- sweaty
sweaty
86,181 corpus weight
- tailored
tailored
86,180 corpus weight
- tame
tame
86,179 corpus weight
- tanner
tanner
86,178 corpus weight
What this shows “tailored” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | tailored |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tailored”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around tailored, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,821 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tailored, with forms such as "atilored", "taillored", and "tailoerd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "tailor", "tailed", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is tailored, spelled T-A-I-L-O-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Adjusted by a tailor, fitted.
- 2Made by a tailor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tailored appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
His expensive tailored shirts didn't look that much better than off-the-rack, but they lasted much longer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atilored
- taillored
- tailoerd
- tailorde
- tailoredd
- tailorred
- tailroed
- taiolred
- taliored
- tialored
- ttailored
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tailored - 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 "tailored", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).