vowed
/vaʊd/
"vowed" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vowed” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,518. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,518
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of vow
Corpus desk
Index EN-vowed · vowed · English
vowed · rank #17,518 · 7 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,518
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH visibly
Nearest frequency peer: visibly (-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 “vowed”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- vanish
vanish
82,486 corpus weight
- vigorously
vigorously
82,485 corpus weight
- visibly
visibly
82,484 corpus weight
- vowed
vowed
82,483 corpus weight
- VPN
VPN
82,482 corpus weight
- wetlands
wetlands
82,480 corpus weight
What this shows “vowed” 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 | vowed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /vaʊd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “vowed”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around vowed (IPA /vaʊd/), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,518 among 969 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "past participle of vow".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for vowed, with forms such as "ovwed", "voewd", and "vowde". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "vowel", "vowels", "vow", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is vowed, spelled V-O-W-E-D.
Definition
- 1past participle of vow
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovwed
- voewd
- vowde
- vowedd
- vowwed
- vvowed
- vwoed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vowed - 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
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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).