shivered
/ˈʃɪvəd/
"shivered" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shivered” is uncommon English (frequency #59,701 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,701
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of shiver
Corpus desk
Index EN-shivered · shivered · English
shivered · rank #59,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,701
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH shapeshifter
Nearest frequency peer: shapeshifter (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shivered”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- secondarily
secondarily
40,304 corpus weight
- Shani
Shani
40,303 corpus weight
- shapeshifter
shapeshifter
40,302 corpus weight
- shivered
shivered
40,300 corpus weight
- showgirl
showgirl
40,298 corpus weight
- silkworm
silkworm
40,297 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shivered” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shivered |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈʃɪvəd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shivered” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shivered is uncommon English at frequency #59,701 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈʃɪvəd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of shiver".
Zero misspellings are on record for shivered in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is shivered, spelled S-H-I-V-E-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of shiver
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.