striven
/ˈstɹɪvən/
"striven" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“striven” is uncommon English (frequency #82,815 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,815
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of strive
Corpus desk
Index EN-striven · striven · English
striven · rank #82,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,815
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stroganoff
Nearest frequency peer: stroganoff (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “striven”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- stegosaurus
stegosaurus
17,191 corpus weight
- stonemason
stonemason
17,188 corpus weight
- striven
striven
17,186 corpus weight
- stroganoff
stroganoff
17,185 corpus weight
- Stroh
Stroh
17,184 corpus weight
- substituent
substituent
17,182 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “striven” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “striven” in English
Rare enough to double-check
striven is uncommon English at frequency #82,815 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈstɹɪvən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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