striven
/ˈstɹɪvən/
"striven" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“striven” is an uncommon English word, ranked #82,815 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #82,815
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - past participle of strive
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | striven |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈstɹɪvən/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “striven” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for striven is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈstɹɪvən/. Corpus data places it at rank #82,815 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "past participle of strive".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for striven, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is striven, spelled S-T-R-I-V-E-N.
Definition
- 1past participle of strive
Synonyms
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 “striven”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-R-I-V-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.