poverty-stricken
"poverty-stricken" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“poverty-stricken” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Very poor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-poverty-stricken · poverty-stricken · English
poverty-stricken · 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 "P" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poverty-stricken |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “poverty-stricken” in English
Rare enough to double-check
poverty-stricken is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Very poor.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for poverty-stricken, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is poverty-stricken, spelled P-O-V-E-R-T-Y---S-T-R-I-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Very poor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poverty-stricken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The small village was poverty-stricken, with many families struggling to afford even basic necessities like food and water.
This word in other languages
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.