handsomest
"handsomest" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“handsomest” is uncommon English (frequency #70,734 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,734
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superlative form of handsome: most handsome
Corpus desk
Index EN-handsomest · handsomest · English
handsomest · rank #70,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,734
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Haran
Nearest frequency peer: Haran (+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 “handsomest”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Guterres
Guterres
29,275 corpus weight
- gwan
gwan
29,274 corpus weight
- Hadassah
Hadassah
29,271 corpus weight
- handsomest
handsomest
29,267 corpus weight
- Haran
Haran
29,266 corpus weight
- Hesiod
Hesiod
29,259 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “handsomest” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | handsomest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “handsomest” in English
Rare enough to double-check
handsomest is uncommon English at frequency #70,734 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "superlative form of handsome: most handsome".
No generated misspelling entries exist for handsomest in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is handsomest, spelled H-A-N-D-S-O-M-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of handsome: most handsome
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how handsomest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
While not, perhaps, the handsomest of 4-4-2 tanks, as they had a rather large proportion of their driving wheels exposed, they proved very useful locomotives, doing yeoman work on suburban trains around London and Birmingham, and later on numerous rural routes.
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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