zombified
"zombified" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“zombified” is uncommon English (frequency #98,918 among 2,810 “Z” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,918
- frequency rank, English
- 2,810
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Having been made into a zombie, or induced to behave in a zombie-like fashion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zombified |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “zombified” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
zombified is uncommon English at frequency #98,918 among 2,810 “Z” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having been made into a zombie, or induced to behave in a zombie-like fashion.".
Zero misspellings are on record for zombified in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is zombified, spelled Z-O-M-B-I-F-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having been made into a zombie, or induced to behave in a zombie-like fashion.
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 “zombified”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Z-O-M-B-I-F-I-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.