urged
/ɝd͡ʒd/
"urged" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“urged” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,079
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of urge
Corpus desk
Index EN-urged · urged · English
urged · rank #7,079 · 7 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,079
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH upside
Nearest frequency peer: upside (-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 “urged”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- TX
TX
92,924 corpus weight
- upside
upside
92,923 corpus weight
- urged
urged
92,922 corpus weight
- visitor
visitor
92,921 corpus weight
- vitamin
vitamin
92,920 corpus weight
- void
void
92,919 corpus weight
What this shows “urged” 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 | urged |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɝd͡ʒd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “urged”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around urged (IPA /ɝd͡ʒd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,079 among 1,433 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of urge".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for urged, with forms such as "ruged", "ugred", and "uregd". 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. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "used", "Uriel", "urgent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is urged, spelled U-R-G-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of urge
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ruged
- ugred
- uregd
- urgde
- urgedd
- urgged
- urrged
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of urged - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).