strifeful
"strifeful" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“strifeful” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.
Corpus desk
Index EN-strifeful · strifeful · English
strifeful · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strifeful |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “strifeful” in English
Rare enough to double-check
strifeful is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for strifeful, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From strife + -ful. The correct English form is strifeful, spelled S-T-R-I-F-E-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1Full of strife; quarrelsome, polemic, contentious.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how strifeful appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But strifull minde, and diuerse qualitee / Drew them in parts, and each made others foe [...].
Etymology
From strife + -ful.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.