grossest
"grossest" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grossest” is uncommon English (frequency #55,471 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,471
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superlative form of gross: most gross
Corpus desk
Index EN-grossest · grossest · English
grossest · rank #55,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,471
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH GSK
Nearest frequency peer: GSK (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “grossest”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- GOS
GOS
44,534 corpus weight
- Govinda
Govinda
44,533 corpus weight
- Grecian
Grecian
44,532 corpus weight
- grossest
grossest
44,530 corpus weight
- GSK
GSK
44,529 corpus weight
- gullies
gullies
44,527 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “grossest” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grossest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “grossest” in English
Rare enough to double-check
grossest is uncommon English at frequency #55,471 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "superlative form of gross: most gross".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for grossest, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is grossest, spelled G-R-O-S-S-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of gross: most gross
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grossest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It would be some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilisation, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them; or even to look over the old day-books of the merchants, to see what it was that the men most commonly bought at the stores, what they sto…
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).