curiouser
/ˈkjʊəɹɪəsə(ɹ)/
"curiouser" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“curiouser” is uncommon English (frequency #99,146 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,146
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - comparative form of curious: more curious
Corpus desk
Index EN-curiouser · curiouser · English
curiouser · rank #99,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,146
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cultus
Nearest frequency peer: cultus (-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 “curiouser”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crustacea
crustacea
861 corpus weight
- cultus
cultus
856 corpus weight
- curiouser
curiouser
855 corpus weight
- curtsey
curtsey
854 corpus weight
- Cybele
Cybele
852 corpus weight
- cyclohexane
cyclohexane
851 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “curiouser” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curiouser |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkjʊəɹɪəsə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “curiouser” in English
Rare enough to double-check
curiouser is uncommon English at frequency #99,146 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈkjʊəɹɪəsə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "comparative form of curious: more curious".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for curiouser, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is curiouser, spelled C-U-R-I-O-U-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1comparative form of curious: more curious
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how curiouser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); "now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!"
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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