partaken
/pɑːˈteɪ.kən/
"partaken" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“partaken” is uncommon English (frequency #99,679 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,679
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of partake
Corpus desk
Index EN-partaken · partaken · English
partaken · rank #99,679 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,679
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH parsa
Nearest frequency peer: parsa (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “partaken”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- paratha
paratha
327 corpus weight
- pard
pard
325 corpus weight
- parrying
parrying
324 corpus weight
- parsa
parsa
323 corpus weight
- partaken
partaken
322 corpus weight
- Parth
Parth
321 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “partaken” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | partaken |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɑːˈteɪ.kən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “partaken” in English
Rare enough to double-check
partaken is uncommon English at frequency #99,679 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɑːˈteɪ.kən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "past participle of partake".
No misspelling variants are generated for partaken in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is partaken, spelled P-A-R-T-A-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1past participle of partake
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how partaken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The human heart was never made for solitude; thoughts were meant to be expressed, feelings meant to be partaken.
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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