wetted
/ˈwɛtəd/
"wetted" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wetted” is uncommon English (frequency #84,906 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,906
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of wet
Corpus desk
Index EN-wetted · wetted · English
wetted · rank #84,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,906
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 12,113
- PHOTO-FINISH Whitton
Nearest frequency peer: Whitton (+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 “wetted”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- wau
wau
15,102 corpus weight
- wetted
wetted
15,095 corpus weight
- Whitton
Whitton
15,094 corpus weight
- wholesomene…
wholesomeness
15,093 corpus weight
- wingsuit
wingsuit
15,089 corpus weight
- Winklevoss
Winklevoss
15,088 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “wetted” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wetted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈwɛtəd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wetted” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wetted is uncommon English at frequency #84,906 among 12,113 “W” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈwɛtəd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of wet".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for wetted, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is wetted, spelled W-E-T-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of wet
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 May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.