have drink taken

verb

"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.

Key facts for have drink taken
PropertyValue
Headwordhave drink taken
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “have drink taken” sits in English frequency

have drink taken falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    To be (extremely) drunk.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how have drink taken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. My client had drink taken when he vandalised that wall, Your Honour.
  2. 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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "have drink taken"?
"have drink taken" is spelled H-A-V-E- -D-R-I-N-K- -T-A-K-E-N.
What does "have drink taken" mean?
As a verb, "have drink taken" means: To be (extremely) drunk.
What language does "have drink taken" come from?
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list