trembled
/ˈtɹɛmbl̩d/
"trembled" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“trembled” is uncommon English (frequency #50,282 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,282
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of tremble
Corpus desk
Index EN-trembled · trembled · English
trembled · rank #50,282 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,282
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH triumvirate
Nearest frequency peer: triumvirate (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “trembled”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- toleration
toleration
49,724 corpus weight
- topsoil
topsoil
49,723 corpus weight
- trembled
trembled
49,719 corpus weight
- triumvirate
triumvirate
49,717 corpus weight
- troubleshoot
troubleshoot
49,716 corpus weight
- tubman
tubman
49,714 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “trembled” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trembled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈtɹɛmbl̩d/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,282 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “trembled” in English
Rare enough to double-check
trembled is uncommon English at frequency #50,282 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈtɹɛmbl̩d/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of tremble".
No generated misspelling entries exist for trembled in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 trembled, spelled T-R-E-M-B-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of tremble
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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