shriveled
"shriveled" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shriveled” is uncommon English (frequency #54,485 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,485
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shriveled · shriveled · English
shriveled · rank #54,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,485
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH shoppe
Nearest frequency peer: shoppe (-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 “shriveled”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- shipboard
shipboard
45,520 corpus weight
- shoppe
shoppe
45,518 corpus weight
- shriveled
shriveled
45,516 corpus weight
- Sisko
Sisko
45,514 corpus weight
- slanderous
slanderous
45,513 corpus weight
- Slavonic
Slavonic
45,512 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shriveled” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shriveled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shriveled” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shriveled is uncommon English at frequency #54,485 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for shriveled in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is shriveled, spelled S-H-R-I-V-E-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Wrinkled because the volume has reduced while the surface area of the outer layer has remained constant.
- 2Collapsed in size.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shriveled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A prune is a shriveled plum.
Her lips looked too shriveled to close over her teeth.
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 9 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.