littlest

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for littlest is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈlɪtl̩əst/. Corpus data places it at rank #43,240 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "superlative form of little: most little".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for littlest, with forms such as "ilttlest", "litlest", and "litltest". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "little", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is littlest, spelled L-I-T-T-L-E-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.