wormed
"wormed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wormed” is uncommon English (frequency #81,987 among 12,113 “W” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,987
- frequency rank, English
- 12,113
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Affected with woodworm.
| 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) |
Where “wormed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
wormed is uncommon English at frequency #81,987 among 12,113 “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.
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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Using “wormed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-O-R-M-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.