biggest
/ˈbɪɡ.ɪst/noun, adjective
biggest is spelled B-I-G-G-E-S-T. The wrong spelling people search most is bigest: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 21 of all searches for the word. Biggest is a noun meaning “Something that is bigger than all others in its class”. The plural of biggest is biggests.
How many letters and syllables are in biggest?
| Letters | 7: B-I-G-G-E-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 85 times per million words; the 1,251st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, bigest, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell biggest?
Biggest is spelled B-I-G-G-E-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 21 of the searches for biggest in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is biggest?
Biggest appears 85 times per million words in written English, the 1,251st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce biggest?
- /ˈbɪɡ.ɪst/
- /ˈbɪɡ.əst/
Biggest has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-biggest.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-biggest.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of biggest
- biggests plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does biggest mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Something that is bigger than all others in its class.
The Guinness Book of Records lists many biggests.
adjective
- 1
superlative form of big: most big
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).