high society

noun

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

The verdict

“high society” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - The socially interacting wealthy fashionable elite of a society, especially in Western societies.

Corpus desk

Index EN-high-society · high society · English

high society · 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

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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 society
PropertyValue
Headwordhigh society
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “high society” in English

high societyranks 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 society is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The socially interacting wealthy fashionable elite of a society, especially in Western societies.".

high society doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is high society, spelled H-I-G-H- -S-O-C-I-E-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    The socially interacting wealthy fashionable elite of a society, especially in Western societies.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. “‘What are the gaieties of the Rich, the splendours of the Powerful, what is the pride of the Great, what are the gaudy pleasures of High Society?’”
  2. Exclusive nightclubs are out of style with me / 'Cause I don't associate with high society

This word in other languages

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 society"?
"high society" is spelled H-I-G-H- -S-O-C-I-E-T-Y.
What does "high society" mean?
As a noun, "high society" means: The socially interacting wealthy fashionable elite of a society, especially in Western societies.
What language does "high society" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list