wormed
"wormed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wormed” is uncommon English (frequency #81,987 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,987
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affected with woodworm.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wormed · wormed · English
wormed · rank #81,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,987
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Worksop
Nearest frequency peer: Worksop (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “wormed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- winer
winer
18,019 corpus weight
- Winnetka
Winnetka
18,018 corpus weight
- WLW
WLW
18,016 corpus weight
- Worksop
Worksop
18,015 corpus weight
- wormed
wormed
18,014 corpus weight
- wpm
wpm
18,013 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “wormed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wormed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wormed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wormed is uncommon English at frequency #81,987 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for wormed in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is wormed, spelled W-O-R-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1Affected with woodworm.
- 2Infested with parasitic worms.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wormed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thus, sitting where I was, I lit my candle once more, and then clambered across that great coffin which, for two hours or more, had been a mid-wall of partition between me and danger. But to get out of the niche was harder than to get in; for now that I had a candle to light me, I saw that the coffin, though sound enough to outer view, was wormed through…
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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