have drink taken
"have-drink-taken" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“have drink taken” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - To be (extremely) drunk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-have-drink-taken · have drink taken · English
have drink taken · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | have drink taken |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “have drink taken” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
have drink taken is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To be (extremely) drunk.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for have drink taken, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is have drink taken, spelled H-A-V-E- -D-R-I-N-K- -T-A-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1To be (extremely) drunk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how have drink taken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My client had drink taken when he vandalised that wall, Your Honour.
The coroner wanted to know where the hell he thought he was going, and the Sheep explained that he was “going behind”, for he had drink taken and his bladder was weak.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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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.