forsaken
for·sak·en/fɔɹˈseɪkən/adjective, verb
forsaken is spelled F-O-R-S-A-K-E-N, 3 syllables: for·sak·en. The wrong spelling people search most is foresaken: about 330 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 66 of all searches for the word. Forsaken is an adjective meaning “Deserted; abandoned”.
How many letters and syllables are in forsaken?
| Letters | 8: F-O-R-S-A-K-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: for·sak·en |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,536th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, foresaken, about 330 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell forsaken?
Forsaken is spelled F-O-R-S-A-K-E-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 66 of the searches for forsaken in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is forsaken?
Forsaken appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce forsaken?
- /fɔɹˈseɪkən/
Forsaken has 3 syllables, split for·sak·en in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-forsaken.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of forsaken
- more forsaken comparative
- most forsaken superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does forsaken mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Deserted; abandoned.
- 2
Helpless.
verb
- 1
past participle of forsake
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forsaken in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense abandoned:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | abandonné, esseulé, désolé |
| German | im Stich gelassen, verlassen, aufgegeben |
| Spanish | abandonado, dejado de la mano de, olvidado por |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does forsaken come from?
Morphologically forsake + -n.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).