comfortable in one's own skin
"comfortable-in-one-s-own-skin" is a 24-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“comfortable in one's own skin” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 29
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Relaxed and confident in one's manner of presenting oneself and interacting with others; conveying the impression that one has a clear, satisfying understanding of one's own abilities and situation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-comfortable-in-one-s-own · comfortable in one's own skin · English
comfortable in one's own skin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 29 letters
- VOW-9 9 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 | comfortable in one's own skin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 29 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “comfortable in one's own skin” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
comfortable in one's own skin is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relaxed and confident in one's manner of presenting oneself and interacting with others; conveying the impression that one has a clear, satisfying understanding of one's own abilities and situation.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for comfortable in one's own skin in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 comfortable in one's own skin, spelled C-O-M-F-O-R-T-A-B-L-E- -I-N- -O-N-E-'-S- -O-W-N- -S-K-I-N.
Definition
- 1Relaxed and confident in one's manner of presenting oneself and interacting with others; conveying the impression that one has a clear, satisfying understanding of one's own abilities and situation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how comfortable in one's own skin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Says his wife Marlene: "He presents the same face to people in Washington that he does to our sons' friends. He's just comfortable in his own skin."
She had been completely natural from the first with him, utterly comfortable in her own skin.
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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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