bereaved
/bɪˈɹiːvd/
"bereaved" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bereaved” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,696. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,696
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - having suffered the death of a loved one
Corpus desk
Index EN-bereaved · bereaved · English
bereaved · rank #32,696 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,696
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bene
Nearest frequency peer: bene (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “bereaved”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Banff
Banff
67,308 corpus weight
- basements
basements
67,307 corpus weight
- bene
bene
67,306 corpus weight
- bereaved
bereaved
67,305 corpus weight
- bes
bes
67,304 corpus weight
- BFA
BFA
67,303 corpus weight
What this shows “bereaved” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | bereaved |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bɪˈɹiːvd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bereaved”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bereaved (IPA /bɪˈɹiːvd/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,696 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "having suffered the death of a loved one".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bereaved, with forms such as "bbereaved", "beeraved", and "beraeved". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "braved", "behaved", "berated", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is bereaved, spelled B-E-R-E-A-V-E-D.
Definition
- 1having suffered the death of a loved one
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bereaved appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
bereaved relatives
Perversely, we love John Wick himself. That lethal, bereaved assassin is a good bad guy for our times, the natural extension of Tony Soprano, Walter White and all the other heroic antiheroes the culture has embraced.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbereaved
- beeraved
- beraeved
- bereaevd
- bereavde
- bereavedd
- bereavved
- berevaed
- berreaved
- breeaved
- ebreaved
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bereaved - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bereaved", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).