shorn
/ʃɔːn/
"shorn" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shorn” is uncommon English (frequency #51,389 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,389
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of shear
Corpus desk
Index EN-shorn · shorn · English
shorn · rank #51,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,389
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sherif
Nearest frequency peer: Sherif (-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 “shorn”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- sharpener
sharpener
48,616 corpus weight
- Sherif
Sherif
48,613 corpus weight
- shorn
shorn
48,612 corpus weight
- sideburns
sideburns
48,610 corpus weight
- Sigurd
Sigurd
48,609 corpus weight
- simian
simian
48,608 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shorn” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shorn |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʃɔːn/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shorn” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shorn is uncommon English at frequency #51,389 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ʃɔːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "past participle of shear".
No misspelling variants are generated for shorn in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is shorn, spelled S-H-O-R-N.
Definition
- 1past participle of shear
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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