longish
"longish" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“longish” is uncommon English (frequency #64,503 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,503
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Somewhat long.
Corpus desk
Index EN-longish · longish · English
longish · rank #64,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,503
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH loris
Nearest frequency peer: loris (+3 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 “longish”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Limburg
Limburg
35,504 corpus weight
- linchpin
linchpin
35,503 corpus weight
- longish
longish
35,498 corpus weight
- loris
loris
35,495 corpus weight
- lowrie
lowrie
35,493 corpus weight
- Luann
Luann
35,492 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “longish” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | longish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “longish” in English
Rare enough to double-check
longish is uncommon English at frequency #64,503 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Somewhat long.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for longish, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From long + -ish. The correct English form is longish, spelled L-O-N-G-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Somewhat long.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how longish appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1922, Rudyard Kipling, "A St. Helena Lullaby," lines 17-20, in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, http://www.bartleby.com/364/294.html "How far is St. Helena from the Capes of Trafalgar?" / A longish way—a longish way—with ten year more to run. / It's South across the water underneath a falling star. / (What you cannot finish you must leave…
She had a longish face scribbled all over with wrinkles.
Etymology
From long + -ish.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).