thrown
/θɹəʊn/
"thrown" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thrown” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #3,663 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #3,663
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - past participle of throw
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 | thrown |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /θɹəʊn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “thrown” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for thrown is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /θɹəʊn/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,663 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "past participle of throw".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for thrown, with forms such as "htrown", "thhrown", and "thorwn". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "town", "throws", "thon", 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 throwen, from Old English þrāwen, ġeþrāwen, from Proto-Germanic *þrēanaz, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną. Doublet of thran. Morphologically throw + -n. The correct English form is thrown, spelled T-H-R-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1past participle of throw
Etymology
From Middle English throwen, from Old English þrāwen, ġeþrāwen, from Proto-Germanic *þrēanaz, from Proto-Germanic *þrēaną. Doublet of thran. Morphologically throw + -n.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: htrown,thhrown,thorwn,thronw,thrownn,throwwn,thrrown,thrwon,trhown,tthrown
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thrown - 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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Using “thrown”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-H-R-O-W-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /θɹəʊn/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “town” - see the side-by-side comparison. thrown vs town
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.