form-fitting

adj

"form-fitting" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“form-fitting” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fitting closely to the body of the wearer, thus clearly revealing its shape.

Corpus desk

Index EN-form-fitting · form-fitting · English

form-fitting · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-3 3 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.

Key facts for form-fitting
PropertyValue
Headwordform-fitting
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “form-fitting” in English

form-fittingranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

form-fitting is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fitting closely to the body of the wearer, thus clearly revealing its shape.".

form-fitting doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is form-fitting, spelled F-O-R-M---F-I-T-T-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fitting closely to the body of the wearer, thus clearly revealing its shape.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how form-fitting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. a form-fitting evening dress

Synonyms

close-fittingfigure-huggingslinkysnugtighttight-fitting

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "form-fitting"?
"form-fitting" is spelled F-O-R-M---F-I-T-T-I-N-G.
What does "form-fitting" mean?
As an adjective, "form-fitting" means: Fitting closely to the body of the wearer, thus clearly revealing its shape.
What language does "form-fitting" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list