closest
/ˈkləʊ.sɪst/
"closest" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“closest” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,016. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,016
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superlative form of close: most close.
Corpus desk
Index EN-closest · closest · English
closest · rank #5,016 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,016
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH clinic
Nearest frequency peer: clinic (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “closest”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- CIA
CIA
94,988 corpus weight
- clever
clever
94,987 corpus weight
- clinic
clinic
94,986 corpus weight
- closest
closest
94,985 corpus weight
- collections
collections
94,984 corpus weight
- continuous
continuous
94,983 corpus weight
What this shows “closest” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | closest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkləʊ.sɪst/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “closest”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around closest (IPA /ˈkləʊ.sɪst/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,016 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "superlative form of close: most close.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for closest, with forms such as "cclosest", "cllosest", and "cloesst". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "closet", "cloves", "closeup", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 closest, spelled C-L-O-S-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of close: most close.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how closest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In sober seriousness, there is more poetry than truth in the sweet poem of Allan Cunningham—the Town and Country Child: witness the cheerful voices of the rosy faces to be met with in the smallest street and closest alley in London;...
As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cclosest
- cllosest
- cloesst
- closesst
- closestt
- closets
- clossest
- closset
- clsoest
- colsest
- lcosest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of closest - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "closest", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).