terraced
"terraced" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“terraced” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #28,756. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,756
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, relating to, or being a terraced house, or a number of them.
Corpus desk
Index EN-terraced · terraced · English
terraced · rank #28,756 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,756
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tempe
Nearest frequency peer: Tempe (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “terraced”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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swimwear
71,252 corpus weight
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taunting
71,249 corpus weight
- TEC
TEC
71,248 corpus weight
- Tempe
Tempe
71,247 corpus weight
- terraced
terraced
71,245 corpus weight
- titty
titty
71,241 corpus weight
What this shows “terraced” 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 | terraced |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “terraced”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around terraced, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,756 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Of, relating to, or being a terraced house, or a number of them.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for terraced, with forms such as "etrraced", "teraced", and "terarced". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "traced", "terrace", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is terraced, spelled T-E-R-R-A-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1Of, relating to, or being a terraced house, or a number of them.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how terraced appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery tow…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etrraced
- teraced
- terarced
- terracced
- terracde
- terracedd
- terraecd
- terrcaed
- treraced
- tterraced
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of terraced - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).