Highsmith
"highsmith" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Highsmith” is uncommon English (frequency #73,261 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,261
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-highsmith · Highsmith · English
Highsmith · rank #73,261 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,261
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hinch
Nearest frequency peer: Hinch (+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 “Highsmith”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hedgerow
hedgerow
26,745 corpus weight
- Highsmith
Highsmith
26,740 corpus weight
- Hinch
Hinch
26,739 corpus weight
- Hodgins
Hodgins
26,734 corpus weight
- holing
holing
26,733 corpus weight
- holistically
holistically
26,732 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Highsmith” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Highsmith |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Highsmith” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Highsmith is uncommon English at frequency #73,261 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Highsmith has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Highsmith, spelled H-I-G-H-S-M-I-T-H.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Highsmith appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But for Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith, the husband-and-wife co-founders of the Brooklyn-based design firm Workstead, the recent revamp of an 1850s residence in upstate New York not only presented them with a thrilling challenge, it also marked a celebratory homecoming after a few years spent living in the South.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).