webbed
/ˈwɛbd/
"webbed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“webbed” is uncommon English (frequency #51,501 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,501
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - With the digits connected by a thin membrane.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | webbed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈwɛbd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “webbed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
webbed is uncommon English at frequency #51,501 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈwɛbd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for webbed in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is webbed, spelled W-E-B-B-E-D.
Definition
- 1With the digits connected by a thin membrane.
- 2Resembling a web.
- 3Connected to the World Wide Web.
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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Using “webbed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-E-B-B-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈwɛbd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.