texted
/tɛkstɪd/
"texted" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“texted” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,149. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,149
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of text
Corpus desk
Index EN-texted · texted · English
texted · rank #16,149 · 9 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,149
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tentative
Nearest frequency peer: tentative (-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 “texted”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- swimmers
swimmers
83,855 corpus weight
- synagogue
synagogue
83,854 corpus weight
- tentative
tentative
83,853 corpus weight
- texted
texted
83,852 corpus weight
- tongues
tongues
83,851 corpus weight
- topical
topical
83,850 corpus weight
What this shows “texted” 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 | texted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /tɛkstɪd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “texted”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around texted (IPA /tɛkstɪd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,149 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of text".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for texted, with forms such as "etxted", "tetxed", and "texetd". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "texts", "tilted", "tinted", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is texted, spelled T-E-X-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of text
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etxted
- tetxed
- texetd
- textde
- textedd
- textted
- texxted
- ttexted
- txeted
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of texted - 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 "texted", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).