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dearest

dear·est/ˈdɪɹɪst/noun, adjective

dearest is spelled D-E-A-R-E-S-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables (dear·est). It appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dearest means “A beloved person; a term of endearment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dearest is dearests.

How many letters and syllables are in dearest?

Letters7: D-E-A-R-E-S-T
Syllables2: dear·est
In writing2.6 times per million words; the 16,687th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is dearest?

Dearest appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce dearest?

  • UK /ˈdɪəɹɪst/
  • US /ˈdɪɹɪst/

Dearest has 2 syllables, split dear·est in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-dearest.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with dearest?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as dearest from its last stressed vowel (/ɪɹɪst/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of dearest

  • dearests plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does dearest mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A beloved person; a term of endearment.

    I need to call my dearest and tell her the news.

adjective

  1. 1

    superlative form of dear: most dear (a form of dear)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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