forgiven

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for forgiven is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /fəˈɡɪv.n̩/. Corpus data places it at rank #11,891 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "past participle of forgive".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for forgiven, with forms such as "fforgiven", "fogriven", and "forggiven". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "forgiving", "forgive", "forgave", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Morphologically forgive + -n. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is forgiven, spelled F-O-R-G-I-V-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.