little woman
"little-woman" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“little woman” 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) - Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see little, woman.
Corpus desk
Index EN-little-woman · little woman · English
little woman · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | little woman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “little woman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
little woman is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for little woman in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is little woman, spelled L-I-T-T-L-E- -W-O-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see little, woman.
- 2A wife.
- 3A female person with dwarfism, or short stature resulting from a medical condition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how little woman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This impression was so strong that often when we were together and he got up and left a little woman just when she did not expect him to get up and leave her, but quite the contrary, I would explain: “He can't help it, Baby. He has to go back to his ship.”
“My little woman,” said her husband dubiously, “are you quite sure you're better? Or are you, Sophia, about to break out in a fresh direction?”
Synonyms
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.