tousled
"tousled" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tousled” is uncommon English (frequency #73,731 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,731
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tousled · tousled · English
tousled · rank #73,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,731
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tourer
Nearest frequency peer: tourer (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “tousled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- TMD
TMD
26,276 corpus weight
- Torry
Torry
26,275 corpus weight
- toupee
toupee
26,272 corpus weight
- tourer
tourer
26,271 corpus weight
- tousled
tousled
26,270 corpus weight
- traduction
traduction
26,267 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tousled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tousled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tousled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tousled is uncommon English at frequency #73,731 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tousled in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is tousled, spelled T-O-U-S-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Of hair: in disarray, dishevelled, or unkempt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tousled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
His shoes were covered with mud, and he was looking very rough and touzled; but then he had never been a very smart man, the Badger, at the best of times.
An instant later the maid, who looked as tousled and bewildered as if she had that instant been aroused from the deepest sleep, appeared with a card upon a tray.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).