vaunted
"vaunted" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vaunted” is uncommon English (frequency #51,485 among 969 “V” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,485
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Highly or widely praised or boasted about.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vaunted · vaunted · English
vaunted · rank #51,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,485
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH varicose
Nearest frequency peer: varicose (-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 “vaunted”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- validly
validly
48,519 corpus weight
- Valli
Valli
48,518 corpus weight
- varicose
varicose
48,517 corpus weight
- vaunted
vaunted
48,516 corpus weight
- Venezia
Venezia
48,515 corpus weight
- vestibular
vestibular
48,514 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “vaunted” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vaunted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “vaunted” in English
Rare enough to double-check
vaunted is uncommon English at frequency #51,485 among 969 “V” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Highly or widely praised or boasted about.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vaunted, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From vaunt + -ed The correct English form is vaunted, spelled V-A-U-N-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1Highly or widely praised or boasted about.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vaunted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We know that many male City employees still go to lapdancing clubs for a fun night out. We know City organisations have struggled in their vaunted attempts to get more women on boards.
We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.
Etymology
From vaunt + -ed
This word in other languages
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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