little sister

noun

"little-sister" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“little sister” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of younger sister.

Corpus desk

Index EN-little-sister · little sister · English

little sister · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "L" 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 little sister
PropertyValue
Headwordlittle sister
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “little sister” in English

little sisterfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

little sister is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of younger sister.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for little sister in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 little sister, spelled L-I-T-T-L-E- -S-I-S-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Synonym of younger sister.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Hey little sister, what have you done? / Hey little sister, who’s the only one? / Hey little sister, who’s your superman? / Hey little sister, who’s the one you want? / Hey little sister, shotgun!

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 "little sister"?
"little sister" is spelled L-I-T-T-L-E- -S-I-S-T-E-R.
What does "little sister" mean?
As a noun, "little sister" means: Synonym of younger sister.
What language does "little sister" come from?
"little sister" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list