barest
"barest" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“barest” is uncommon English (frequency #65,715 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,715
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superlative form of bare: most bare
Corpus desk
Index EN-barest · barest · English
barest · rank #65,715 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,715
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH banqueting
Nearest frequency peer: banqueting (-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 “barest”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Baffin
Baffin
34,291 corpus weight
- baggie
baggie
34,290 corpus weight
- banca
banca
34,288 corpus weight
- banqueting
banqueting
34,287 corpus weight
- barest
barest
34,286 corpus weight
- barrelled
barrelled
34,284 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “barest” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “barest” in English
Rare enough to double-check
barest is uncommon English at frequency #65,715 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "superlative form of bare: most bare".
No generated misspelling entries exist for barest in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: bare + -est The correct English form is barest, spelled B-A-R-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of bare: most bare
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how barest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In 1963, there was even more of a shutdown [at Christmas]. The Western and London Midland Regions ran no trains, with the rest of the network having the "barest of skeleton services". The Daily Herald called Beeching's cuts "the most scrooge-like... in railway history".
Etymology
bare + -est
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).