graven
"graven" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“graven” is uncommon English (frequency #72,361 among 18,276 “G” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,361
- frequency rank, English
- 18,276
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - past participle of grave
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | graven |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “graven” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
graven is uncommon English at frequency #72,361 among 18,276 “G” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "past participle of grave".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for graven, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English graven, igraven, from Old English grafen, ġegrafen, from Proto-Germanic *grabanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig, trench”). The correct English form is graven, spelled G-R-A-V-E-N.
Definition
- 1past participle of grave
Etymology
From Middle English graven, igraven, from Old English grafen, ġegrafen, from Proto-Germanic *grabanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig, trench”).
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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Using “graven”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-R-A-V-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.