famine resistant
"famine-resistant" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“famine resistant” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Overweight, fat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-famine-resistant · famine resistant · English
famine resistant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | famine resistant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “famine resistant” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
famine resistant is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Overweight, fat.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for famine resistant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is famine resistant, spelled F-A-M-I-N-E- -R-E-S-I-S-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Overweight, fat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how famine resistant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marge Simpson: Con: you're endangering your health. Homer Simpson: Pro: I'm drought and famine resistant.
And they STILL refuse to come out with the Cartman shirts in sizes for famine resistant sysadmins like me. XXL, please!
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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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.