cleverest
/ˈklɛvɚɪst/
"cleverest" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cleverest” is uncommon English (frequency #59,964 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,964
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superlative form of clever: most clever
Corpus desk
Index EN-cleverest · cleverest · English
cleverest · rank #59,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,964
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Clerkenwell
Nearest frequency peer: Clerkenwell (-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 “cleverest”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell
40,038 corpus weight
- cleverest
cleverest
40,037 corpus weight
- clonal
clonal
40,036 corpus weight
- codify
codify
40,034 corpus weight
- Colburn
Colburn
40,033 corpus weight
- Collison
Collison
40,032 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cleverest” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cleverest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈklɛvɚɪst/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cleverest” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cleverest is uncommon English at frequency #59,964 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈklɛvɚɪst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "superlative form of clever: most clever".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cleverest in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is cleverest, spelled C-L-E-V-E-R-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of clever: most clever
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cleverest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is, perhaps, the most brilliant of all the Westinghouse inventions, and is indisputably one of the cleverest devices ever produced by the human brain.
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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