strove
/ˈstɹɔʊv/
"strove" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“strove” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,398. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,398
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past of strive
Corpus desk
Index EN-strove · strove · English
strove · rank #43,398 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,398
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH strenuously
Nearest frequency peer: strenuously (-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 “strove”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- strangeness
strangeness
56,606 corpus weight
- stratum
stratum
56,605 corpus weight
- strenuously
strenuously
56,604 corpus weight
- strove
strove
56,603 corpus weight
- surmise
surmise
56,602 corpus weight
- swindle
swindle
56,600 corpus weight
What this shows “strove” 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 | strove |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈstɹɔʊv/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #43,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “strove”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around strove (IPA /ˈstɹɔʊv/), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,398 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for strove, with forms such as "srtove", "sstrove", and "storve". 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, "store", "serve", "stone", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is strove, spelled S-T-R-O-V-E.
Definition
- 1simple past of strive
- 2past participle of strive
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how strove appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They have not been content with the Simplicity of the Goſpel, which is a plain Rule of living wel, but have ſtrove to out-wit one another in finding out hidden Miſterys;[…]
[…]while, I fear, there will be some white ones, unable to forget that, with malignant heart, and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtove
- sstrove
- storve
- stroev
- strovve
- strrove
- strvoe
- sttrove
- tsrove
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of strove - 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 "strove", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).