shrunk
/ˈʃɹʌŋk/adjective, verb
shrunk is spelled S-H-R-U-N-K. The wrong spelling people search most is shrinked: about 170 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 4 in 10 of all searches for the word. Shrunk is an adjective meaning “shrunken”.
How many letters and syllables are in shrunk?
| Letters | 6: S-H-R-U-N-K |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 22,965th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, shrinked, about 170 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell shrunk?
Shrunk is spelled S-H-R-U-N-K. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 4 in 10 of the searches for shrunk in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is shrunk?
Shrunk appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce shrunk?
- US /ˈʃɹʌŋk/
- US [ˈʃɹʷʌŋk]
- /ˈʃɹʊŋk/
Shrunk has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-shrunk.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-shrunk.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with shrunk
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with shrunk?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as shrunk from its last stressed vowel (/ʌŋk/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of shrunk
- more shrunk comparative
- most shrunk superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does shrunk mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
shrunken
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of shrink
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Shrunk in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense past participle of shrink:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | geschrumpft |
| Spanish | encogido |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.