driven
\ˈdɹɪv.ən\
The verdict
“driven” is uncommon French (frequency #70,549 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,549
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé du verbe drive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-driven · driven · French
driven · rank #70,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,549
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drinks
Nearest frequency peer: drinks (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « driven »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- douve
douve
29,455 corpus weight
- drinks
drinks
29,453 corpus weight
- driven
driven
29,452 corpus weight
- druze
druze
29,451 corpus weight
- dubitative
dubitative
29,450 corpus weight
- Dumesnil
Dumesnil
29,449 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « driven » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | driven |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈdɹɪv.ən\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « driven » en français
Rare enough to double-check
driven is uncommon French at frequency #70,549 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈdɹɪv.ən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé du verbe drive.".
driven has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is driven, spelled D-R-I-V-E-N.
Definition
- 1Participe passé du verbe drive.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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