earliest
/ˈɝ.li.ɪst/
"earliest" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“earliest” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,133. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,133
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superlative form of early: most early
Corpus desk
Index EN-earliest · earliest · English
earliest · rank #6,133 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,133
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH drill
Nearest frequency peer: drill (-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 “earliest”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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93,871 corpus weight
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93,870 corpus weight
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drill
93,869 corpus weight
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earliest
93,868 corpus weight
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93,867 corpus weight
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euro
93,865 corpus weight
What this shows “earliest” 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 | earliest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɝ.li.ɪst/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “earliest”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around earliest (IPA /ˈɝ.li.ɪst/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,133 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "superlative form of early: most early".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for earliest, with forms such as "aerliest", "ealriest", and "earilest". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "earnest", "earlier", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 earliest, spelled E-A-R-L-I-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of early: most early
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how earliest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The earliest I can get there is Monday, at around midday at the earliest.
One of the earliest (and biggest) space weather events on record occurred in September 1859, when a massive solar eruption crashed into the Earth's magnetosphere, triggering a geomagnetic storm that lasted for days.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aerliest
- ealriest
- earilest
- earleist
- earliesst
- earliestt
- earliets
- earliset
- earlliest
- earrliest
- eraliest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of earliest - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "earliest", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).