holden
"holden" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“holden” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,439. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,439
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of hold
Corpus desk
Index EN-holden · holden · English
holden · rank #12,439 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,439
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hogan
Nearest frequency peer: hogan (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “holden”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Harriet
Harriet
87,566 corpus weight
- hash
hash
87,565 corpus weight
- Helena
Helena
87,564 corpus weight
- hogan
hogan
87,563 corpus weight
- holden
holden
87,562 corpus weight
- IG
IG
87,560 corpus weight
What this shows “holden” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | holden |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “holden”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around holden, averb. Corpus frequency is #12,439 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "past participle of hold".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for holden, with forms such as "hholden", "hloden", and "hodlen". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hole", "holds", "holes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English holden, from Old English healden, from Proto-West Germanic *haldan. By surface analysis, hold + -en. The correct English form is holden, spelled H-O-L-D-E-N.
Definition
- 1past participle of hold
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how holden appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Asses milke is holden for to be thickest, and therfore they use it in stead of renning, to turn milke and gather curds thereof. It is thought also to be very good for to make womens skin faire and white
And in the worst construction they conceited Money, or a resignation of that part was holden by the King in France, would beget a Peace at their own will and pleasure.
Etymology
From Middle English holden, from Old English healden, from Proto-West Germanic *haldan. By surface analysis, hold + -en.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hholden
- hloden
- hodlen
- holdden
- holdenn
- holdne
- holedn
- hollden
- ohlden
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of holden - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "holden", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).