vandalised
"vandalised" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vandalised” is uncommon English (frequency #57,154 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,154
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of vandalise
Corpus desk
Index EN-vandalised · vandalised · English
vandalised · rank #57,154 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,154
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH Vanya
Nearest frequency peer: Vanya (+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 “vandalised”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- unpaved
unpaved
42,851 corpus weight
- Updike
Updike
42,850 corpus weight
- vandalised
vandalised
42,847 corpus weight
- Vanya
Vanya
42,846 corpus weight
- velour
velour
42,844 corpus weight
- verbose
verbose
42,843 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “vandalised” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vandalised |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “vandalised” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
vandalised is uncommon English at frequency #57,154 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of vandalise".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for vandalised, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is vandalised, spelled V-A-N-D-A-L-I-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of vandalise
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vandalised appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The gang vandalised the neighbourhood.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.