withered
/ˈwɪðɚd/
"withered" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“withered” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,250. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,250
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
Corpus desk
Index EN-withered · withered · English
withered · rank #32,250 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,250
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wiseman
Nearest frequency peer: wiseman (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “withered”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Wie
Wie
67,753 corpus weight
- wiseman
wiseman
67,752 corpus weight
- withered
withered
67,751 corpus weight
- woefully
woefully
67,750 corpus weight
- workmen
workmen
67,749 corpus weight
- wrangler
wrangler
67,748 corpus weight
What this shows “withered” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | withered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈwɪðɚd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “withered”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around withered (IPA /ˈwɪðɚd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,250 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for withered, with forms such as "iwthered", "wihtered", and "witehred". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "withers", "wither", "watered", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is withered, spelled W-I-T-H-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how withered appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwthered
- wihtered
- witehred
- witheerd
- witherde
- witheredd
- witherred
- withhered
- withreed
- witthered
- wtihered
- wwithered
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of withered - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).