cloven
"cloven" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cloven” is uncommon English (frequency #76,649 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,649
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Split, sundered, or divided.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cloven · cloven · English
cloven · rank #76,649 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,649
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clownfish
Nearest frequency peer: clownfish (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “cloven”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- classism
classism
23,356 corpus weight
- Cleves
Cleves
23,355 corpus weight
- cloven
cloven
23,352 corpus weight
- clownfish
clownfish
23,351 corpus weight
- coffer
coffer
23,347 corpus weight
- collectivity
collectivity
23,346 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cloven” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cloven |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cloven” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cloven is uncommon English at frequency #76,649 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Split, sundered, or divided.".
Zero misspellings are on record for cloven in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 cloven, spelled C-L-O-V-E-N.
Definition
- 1Split, sundered, or divided.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cloven appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness—[...]
This word in other languages
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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