stricken
/ˈstɹɪkən/
"stricken" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stricken” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,642. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,642
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Struck by something.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stricken · stricken · English
stricken · rank #14,642 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,642
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stool
Nearest frequency peer: stool (-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 “stricken”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- starvation
starvation
85,362 corpus weight
- starve
starve
85,361 corpus weight
- stool
stool
85,360 corpus weight
- stricken
stricken
85,359 corpus weight
- stripping
stripping
85,358 corpus weight
- subscriber
subscriber
85,357 corpus weight
What this shows “stricken” 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 | stricken |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈstɹɪkən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “stricken”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around stricken (IPA /ˈstɹɪkən/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,642 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for stricken, with forms such as "srticken", "sstricken", and "stircken". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "strike", "strikes", "striker", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to strike”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreke… The correct English form is stricken, spelled S-T-R-I-C-K-E-N.
Definition
- 1Struck by something.
- 2Disabled or incapacitated by something.
- 3Disabled or incapacitated by something.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stricken appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The town was stricken by a devastating earthquake that left many buildings in ruins.
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Etymology
From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to strike”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreken, German Low German streken, German gestrichen.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srticken
- sstricken
- stircken
- strciken
- striccken
- stricekn
- strickenn
- strickken
- strickne
- strikcen
- strricken
- sttricken
- tsricken
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stricken - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).