expeditious
/ɛkspɪˈdɪʃəs/
"expeditious" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“expeditious” is uncommon English (frequency #65,873 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,873
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fast, prompt, speedy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-expeditious · expeditious · English
expeditious · rank #65,873 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,873
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH expressiveness
Nearest frequency peer: expressiveness (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “expeditious”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Eurocentric
Eurocentric
34,131 corpus weight
- evidential
evidential
34,130 corpus weight
- expeditious
expeditious
34,128 corpus weight
- expressiven…
expressiveness
34,127 corpus weight
- Fareed
Fareed
34,126 corpus weight
- farrier
farrier
34,124 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “expeditious” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | expeditious |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɛkspɪˈdɪʃəs/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “expeditious” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
expeditious is uncommon English at frequency #65,873 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ɛkspɪˈdɪʃəs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for expeditious in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English expedycius (“useful, fitting”), from Latin expedītus (“disengaged, ready, convenient, prompt; unfettered, unencumbered”), past participle of expediō. The correct English form is expeditious, spelled E-X-P-E-D-I-T-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Fast, prompt, speedy.
- 2Completed or done with efficiency and speed; facilitating speed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how expeditious appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: expedited
Our coachman and horses are so extremely expeditious!—I believe we drive faster than anybody.
Etymology
From Middle English expedycius (“useful, fitting”), from Latin expedītus (“disengaged, ready, convenient, prompt; unfettered, unencumbered”), past participle of expediō.
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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