kick someone's ass
"kick-someone-s-ass" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kick someone's ass” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To clobber someone; to beat someone severely.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kick-someone-s-ass · kick someone's ass · English
kick someone's ass · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "K" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kick someone's ass |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kick someone's ass” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kick someone's ass is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for kick someone's ass in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is kick someone's ass, spelled K-I-C-K- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -A-S-S.
Definition
- 1To clobber someone; to beat someone severely.
- 2To kick someone in the buttocks.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kick someone's ass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With their star quarterback back on the field, the Doves are going to kick the Pigeons' asses tonight.
Then the horse kicked Pat's ass. Needless to say, she was not happy!
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.