impoverished
/ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/
"impoverished" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“impoverished” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #18,345 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #18,345
- frequency rank, English
- 12
- letters
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Reduced to poverty.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impoverished |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #18,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “impoverished” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for impoverished is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/. Corpus data places it at rank #18,345 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for impoverished, with forms such as "immpoverished", "imopverished", and "impoevrished". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is impoverished, spelled I-M-P-O-V-E-R-I-S-H-E-D.
Definition
- 1Reduced to poverty.
- 2Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: immpoverished,imopverished,impoevrished,impoveirshed,impoverihsed,impoverisehd,impoverishde,impoverishedd,impoverishhed,impoverisshed,impoverrished,impoversihed,impovreished,impovverished,imppoverished,impvoerished,ipmoverished,mipoverished
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impoverished - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “impoverished”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-M-P-O-V-E-R-I-S-H-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.