sewn
/səʊn/
"sewn" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sewn” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,095. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,095
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of sew
Corpus desk
Index EN-sewn · sewn · English
sewn · rank #23,095 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,095
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shaggy
Nearest frequency peer: shaggy (+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 “sewn”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- saber
saber
76,910 corpus weight
- sadistic
sadistic
76,909 corpus weight
- samba
samba
76,908 corpus weight
- sewn
sewn
76,906 corpus weight
- shaggy
shaggy
76,905 corpus weight
- shelling
shelling
76,904 corpus weight
What this shows “sewn” 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 | sewn |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /səʊn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sewn”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around sewn (IPA /səʊn/), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,095 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "past participle of sew".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for sewn, with forms such as "eswn", "senw", and "sewnn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SW", "son", "sex", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Morphologically sew + -n. The correct English form is sewn, spelled S-E-W-N.
Definition
- 1past participle of sew
Etymology
Morphologically sew + -n.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eswn
- senw
- sewnn
- sewwn
- ssewn
- swen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sewn - 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 "sewn", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).