starved
"starved" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“starved” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,706. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,706
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
Corpus desk
Index EN-starved · starved · English
starved · rank #15,706 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,706
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spitting
Nearest frequency peer: spitting (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “starved”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- snapping
snapping
84,298 corpus weight
- sobbing
sobbing
84,297 corpus weight
- spitting
spitting
84,296 corpus weight
- starved
starved
84,295 corpus weight
- stirred
stirred
84,294 corpus weight
- stuffing
stuffing
84,292 corpus weight
What this shows “starved” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | starved |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “starved”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around starved, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,706 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for starved, with forms such as "satrved", "sstarved", and "starevd". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "stave", "stated", "stayed", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is starved, spelled S-T-A-R-V-E-D.
Definition
- 1Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
- 2Deprived of nourishment or of something vital.
- 3Extremely hungry.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how starved appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alas poore hart, that kiſſe is comfortleſſe, / As frozen vvater to a ſtarued ſnake.
I’m starved! I haven’t eaten since breakfast.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satrved
- sstarved
- starevd
- starrved
- starvde
- starvedd
- starvved
- stavred
- straved
- sttarved
- tsarved
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of starved - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "starved", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).