shrunken
"shrunken" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shrunken” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #45,655. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,655
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shrivelled.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shrunken |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shrunken” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around shrunken, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,655 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shrivelled.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for shrunken, with forms such as "hsrunken", "shhrunken", and "shrnuken". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sunken", "shrunk", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is shrunken, spelled S-H-R-U-N-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Reduced in size as a result of shrinkage; shrivelled.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsrunken
- shhrunken
- shrnuken
- shrrunken
- shruknen
- shrunekn
- shrunkenn
- shrunkken
- shrunkne
- shrunnken
- shurnken
- srhunken
- sshrunken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shrunken - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “shrunken”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-H-R-U-N-K-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “sunken” - see the side-by-side comparison. shrunken vs sunken
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
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.