# wrought

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ɹɔːt/ · frequency rank #16,390

## Definitions
1. Having 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).

## Easily confused with
- **wright** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wright-vs-wrought)

## Common misspellings (11)
`rwought`, `worught`, `wroguht`, `wrougght`, `wroughht`, `wroughtt`, `wrougth`, `wrouhgt`, `wrrought`, `wruoght`, `wwrought`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/wrought