grossest
"grossest" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grossest” is an uncommon English word, ranked #55,471 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #55,471
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - superlative form of gross: most gross
| 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) |
Where “grossest” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for grossest is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #55,471 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-R-O-S-S-E-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.