truncated
/tɹʌŋˈkeɪtɪd/
"truncated" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“truncated” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #28,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,062
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deprived of one of its parts or of its end (e.g., a line of poetry with one syllable fewer in one of its feet).
Corpus desk
Index EN-truncated · truncated · English
truncated · rank #28,062 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,062
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tru
Nearest frequency peer: tru (-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 “truncated”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Toulon
Toulon
71,942 corpus weight
- Townsville
Townsville
71,941 corpus weight
- tru
tru
71,940 corpus weight
- truncated
truncated
71,939 corpus weight
- trusty
trusty
71,938 corpus weight
- twig
twig
71,937 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “truncated” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | truncated |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /tɹʌŋˈkeɪtɪd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “truncated” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around truncated (IPA /tɹʌŋˈkeɪtɪd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,062 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for truncated, with forms such as "rtuncated", "trnucated", and "trruncated". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is truncated, spelled T-R-U-N-C-A-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Deprived of one of its parts or of its end (e.g., a line of poetry with one syllable fewer in one of its feet).
- 2Ending abruptly as if cut across at the base or tip.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtuncated
- trnucated
- trruncated
- trucnated
- trunacted
- truncaetd
- truncatde
- truncatedd
- truncatted
- trunccated
- trunctaed
- trunncated
- ttruncated
- turncated
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of truncated - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "truncated", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
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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.