wrought
/ɹɔːt/
"wrought" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wrought” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #16,390 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #16,390
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Having been worked or prepared somehow.
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 | wrought |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɹɔːt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wrought” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for wrought is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹɔːt/. Corpus data places it at rank #16,390 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Having been worked or prepared somehow.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for wrought, with forms such as "rwought", "worught", and "wroguht". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "wright", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: The past participle of Middle English werken (“to work”), from Old English wyrċan (past tense worhte, past participle (ġe)worht; cf. also the metathetic variant (ġe)wroht), from Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from… The correct English form is wrought, spelled W-R-O-U-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Having been worked or prepared somehow.
Etymology
The past participle of Middle English werken (“to work”), from Old English wyrċan (past tense worhte, past participle (ġe)worht; cf. also the metathetic variant (ġe)wroht), from Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Doublet of worked. Cognate with wright (as in wheelwright etc.), Dutch gewrocht, archaic past participle of werken (archaic past tense wrocht), Low German wracht, archaic past participle of warken (archaic past tense wrach, archaic past participle wracht).
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rwought,worught,wroguht,wrougght,wroughht,wroughtt,wrougth,wrouhgt,wrrought,wruoght,wwrought
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wrought - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “wrought”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-R-O-U-G-H-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɹɔːt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “wright” - see the side-by-side comparison. wrought vs wright
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.