tossed
/tɒst/
"tossed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tossed” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,466. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,466
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of toss
Corpus desk
Index EN-tossed · tossed · English
tossed · rank #10,466 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,466
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tray
Nearest frequency peer: tray (+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 “tossed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- that'd
that'd
89,538 corpus weight
- thickness
thickness
89,537 corpus weight
- tossed
tossed
89,535 corpus weight
- tray
tray
89,534 corpus weight
- UAE
UAE
89,533 corpus weight
- UCLA
UCLA
89,532 corpus weight
What this shows “tossed” 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 | tossed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /tɒst/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tossed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around tossed (IPA /tɒst/), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,466 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of toss".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for tossed, with forms such as "otssed", "tosed", and "tosesd". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "towed", "toss", "toed", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is tossed, spelled T-O-S-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of toss
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otssed
- tosed
- tosesd
- tossde
- tossedd
- tsosed
- ttossed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tossed - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "tossed", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).