watered
/ˈwɔːtə(ɹ)d/
"watered" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“watered” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,735. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,735
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of water
Corpus desk
Index EN-watered · watered · English
watered · rank #18,735 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,735
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH washer
Nearest frequency peer: washer (-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 “watered”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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81,269 corpus weight
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81,268 corpus weight
- washer
washer
81,267 corpus weight
- watered
watered
81,266 corpus weight
- wick
wick
81,264 corpus weight
- worldly
worldly
81,263 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “watered” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | watered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈwɔːtə(ɹ)d/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “watered” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around watered (IPA /ˈwɔːtə(ɹ)d/), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,735 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "simple past and past participle of water".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for watered, with forms such as "awtered", "waetred", and "wateerd". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "waters", "watery", "withered", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From water + -ed. The correct English form is watered, spelled W-A-T-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of water
Etymology
From water + -ed.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awtered
- waetred
- wateerd
- waterde
- wateredd
- waterred
- watreed
- wattered
- wtaered
- wwatered
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of watered - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "watered" maps to 8 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "waters". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #18,735 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "W" letter cohort. W–Z browse
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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.