# sliver

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈslɪv.ə(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #29,466

## Definitions
1. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
2. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment.
3. A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
4. Bait made of pieces of small fish.
5. A narrow high-rise apartment building.
6. A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.

## Etymology
From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)).

## Easily confused with
- **spider** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sliver-vs-spider)
- **slower** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sliver-vs-slower)
- **sniper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sliver-vs-sniper)
- **spicer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sliver-vs-spicer)
- **swivel** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sliver-vs-swivel)
- **solver** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sliver-vs-solver)
- **Snider** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sliver-vs-snider)
- **stover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sliver-vs-stover)
- **slave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slave-vs-sliver)
- **slide** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slide-vs-sliver)
- **slice** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slice-vs-sliver)
- **slime** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slime-vs-sliver)
- **saver** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saver-vs-sliver)
- **skier** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/skier-vs-sliver)
- **sever** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sever-vs-sliver)
- **silver** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/silver-vs-sliver)
- **server** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/server-vs-sliver)
- **slaves** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slaves-vs-sliver)
- **slides** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slides-vs-sliver)
- **sliced** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sliced-vs-sliver)

## Common misspellings (8)
`lsiver`, `slievr`, `sliverr`, `slivre`, `slivver`, `slliver`, `slvier`, `ssliver`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sliver