windowed
"windowed" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“windowed” is uncommon English (frequency #65,636 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,636
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fitted with windows, often of a particular kind or, in (heraldry), of a specified colour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-windowed · windowed · English
windowed · rank #65,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,636
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Wieland
Nearest frequency peer: Wieland (-2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “windowed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- whiteout
whiteout
34,369 corpus weight
- wicketkeeper
wicketkeeper
34,368 corpus weight
- Wieland
Wieland
34,367 corpus weight
- windowed
windowed
34,365 corpus weight
- wireline
wireline
34,363 corpus weight
- witless
witless
34,362 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “windowed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | windowed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “windowed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
windowed is uncommon English at frequency #65,636 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for windowed, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English wyndowed, wyndowid, equivalent to window + -ed. The correct English form is windowed, spelled W-I-N-D-O-W-E-D.
Definition
- 1Fitted with windows, often of a particular kind or, in (heraldry), of a specified colour.
- 2Occupying only a part of the screen (in a window.)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how windowed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop’d and window’d raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?
1712, The Spectator, No. 276, Wednesday, January 16, 1712, Dublin: W. Wilson, 1778, Volume IV, p. 103, You must have seen a strange windowed house near Hyde-Park, which is so built that no one can look out of any of the apartments […]
Etymology
From Middle English wyndowed, wyndowid, equivalent to window + -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); 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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