tooled
/tuːld/
"tooled" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tooled” is uncommon English (frequency #61,869 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,869
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of tool
Corpus desk
Index EN-tooled · tooled · English
tooled · rank #61,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,869
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 27,828
- PHOTO-FINISH torpor
Nearest frequency peer: torpor (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tooled”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tib
tib
38,135 corpus weight
- tice
tice
38,134 corpus weight
- tooled
tooled
38,132 corpus weight
- torpor
torpor
38,131 corpus weight
- traceability
traceability
38,130 corpus weight
- transmissib…
transmissible
38,128 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tooled” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tooled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /tuːld/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tooled” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tooled is uncommon English at frequency #61,869 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /tuːld/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of tool".
tooled doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tool + -ed. The correct English form is tooled, spelled T-O-O-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of tool
Etymology
From tool + -ed.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.