shrove
/ʃɹəʊv/
"shrove" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shrove” is uncommon English (frequency #79,972 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,972
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past of shrive
Corpus desk
Index EN-shrove · shrove · English
shrove · rank #79,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,972
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shoehorn
Nearest frequency peer: shoehorn (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shrove”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Shion
Shion
20,032 corpus weight
- shoehorn
shoehorn
20,030 corpus weight
- shrove
shrove
20,029 corpus weight
- shrubby
shrubby
20,028 corpus weight
- sida
sida
20,026 corpus weight
- silicones
silicones
20,024 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shrove” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shrove |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʃɹəʊv/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shrove” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shrove is uncommon English at frequency #79,972 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ʃɹəʊv/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past of shrive".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for shrove, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is shrove, spelled S-H-R-O-V-E.
Definition
- 1simple past of shrive
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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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.