whiskered
"whiskered" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“whiskered” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Possessed of whiskers; covered in bristles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-whiskered · whiskered · English
whiskered · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | whiskered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “whiskered” in English
Rare enough to double-check
whiskered is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Possessed of whiskers; covered in bristles.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for whiskered, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From whisker + -ed. The correct English form is whiskered, spelled W-H-I-S-K-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Possessed of whiskers; covered in bristles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how whiskered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Michael's heavily whiskered face hadn't seen a razor in some days.
Their attention was, however, too much taken up with their fellow-passengers: a whiskered, cloaked, and cigared youth, with every thing military about him but the air:...
Etymology
From whisker + -ed.
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.