eaten
/ˈiː.tn̩/
"eaten" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eaten” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,786. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,786
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of eat
Corpus desk
Index EN-eaten · eaten · English
eaten · rank #5,786 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,786
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH eagle
Nearest frequency peer: eagle (-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 “eaten”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- dishes
dishes
94,218 corpus weight
- dozens
dozens
94,217 corpus weight
- eagle
eagle
94,216 corpus weight
- eaten
eaten
94,215 corpus weight
- embassy
embassy
94,214 corpus weight
- engaging
engaging
94,213 corpus weight
What this shows “eaten” 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 | eaten |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈiː.tn̩/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “eaten”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around eaten (IPA /ˈiː.tn̩/), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,786 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "past participle of eat".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for eaten, with forms such as "aeten", "eaetn", and "eatenn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "een", "even", "eats", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English eten, from Old English eten, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etanaz; morphologically eat + -en. The correct English form is eaten, spelled E-A-T-E-N.
Definition
- 1past participle of eat
Etymology
From Middle English eten, from Old English eten, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etanaz; morphologically eat + -en.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aeten
- eaetn
- eatenn
- eatne
- eatten
- etaen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of eaten - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "eaten", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).