trounced
"trounced" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“trounced” is uncommon English (frequency #64,783 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,783
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of trounce
Corpus desk
Index EN-trounced · trounced · English
trounced · rank #64,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,783
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tripathi
Nearest frequency peer: Tripathi (-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 “trounced”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tranquilizer
tranquilizer
35,223 corpus weight
- Tripathi
Tripathi
35,219 corpus weight
- trounced
trounced
35,218 corpus weight
- Tulloch
Tulloch
35,217 corpus weight
- turbidity
turbidity
35,216 corpus weight
- tyme
tyme
35,214 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “trounced” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trounced |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “trounced” in English
Rare enough to double-check
trounced is uncommon English at frequency #64,783 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of trounce".
No misspelling variants are generated for trounced in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is trounced, spelled T-R-O-U-N-C-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of trounce
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trounced appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Knicks trounced the Rockets on Sunday.
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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