high-quality

adj

"high-quality" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“high-quality” 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) - Of very good quality; superior.

Corpus desk

Index EN-high-quality · high-quality · English

high-quality · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "H" 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 high-quality
PropertyValue
Headwordhigh-quality
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “high-quality” in English

high-qualityranks 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

high-quality is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of very good quality; superior.".

No misspelling variants are generated for high-quality in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is high-quality, spelled H-I-G-H---Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Of very good quality; superior.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. She always wears high-quality clothes.
  2. We use only the highest-quality materials.

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 "high-quality"?
"high-quality" is spelled H-I-G-H---Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y.
What does "high-quality" mean?
As an adjective, "high-quality" means: Of very good quality; superior.
What language does "high-quality" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list