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Rule "confusion singed/signed"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: confusion singed/signed
Message: Are you sure you meant to write 'singed' (a synonym for 'burnt'), or did you mean 'signed'?
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • Here is a copy of the singed contract.
    Correction suggestion: signed
  • There will be a risk assumption form to be singed and turned in by the end of the week.
    Correction suggestion: signed
  • I believe that Bookout has singed with the OU basketball program, but what I don't know is if OU has turned in the papers or not.
    Correction suggestion: signed
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • Tom got too close to the fire and singed his beard.
  • This was then singed over a gas flame, then bleached and or dyed.
ID: SINGED_CONTRACT [1]
Version: 6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-10-30 22:33:07 +0100)