lowen
"lowen" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lowen” is uncommon English (frequency #79,718 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,718
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To make or become low.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lowen · lowen · English
lowen · rank #79,718 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,718
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH looseness
Nearest frequency peer: looseness (-2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “lowen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- looseness
looseness
20,285 corpus weight
- lowen
lowen
20,283 corpus weight
- Lurgan
Lurgan
20,280 corpus weight
- LXX
LXX
20,279 corpus weight
- Lynnwood
Lynnwood
20,277 corpus weight
- magnon
magnon
20,276 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lowen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lowen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lowen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lowen is uncommon English at frequency #79,718 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To make or become low.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lowen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From low + -en. The correct English form is lowen, spelled L-O-W-E-N.
Definition
- 1To make or become low.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lowen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] and a wide ware or float can be put down in lieu thereof, of the same height as the said water gates or floats when lowened, and of the exact width and other dimensions as the present float at Wangford mill, and in the same manner as the float at Wangford mill; […]
Must I be lowened from the clouds dazzling Olympus' heights unto the apex point Which man nor scales, Joveward, save when we fill His soul on wing with swiftly-thinning air, Wherein gross mortal parts retard the rise?
Etymology
From low + -en.
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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