close-fisted
/ˌkləʊsˈfɪstɪd/
"close-fisted" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“close-fisted” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - tight-fisted, stingy
Corpus desk
Index EN-close-fisted · close-fisted · English
close-fisted · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | close-fisted |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌkləʊsˈfɪstɪd/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “close-fisted” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
close-fisted is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌkləʊsˈfɪstɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "tight-fisted, stingy".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for close-fisted, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is close-fisted, spelled C-L-O-S-E---F-I-S-T-E-D.
Definition
- 1tight-fisted, stingy
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how close-fisted appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She was rather close-fisted in money matters and offered him only fifty dollars, but she had to raise her price till it rose to three hundred.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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