man's best friend
"man-s-best-friend" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“man's best friend” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An affectionate term for a dog, or dogs in general.
Corpus desk
Index EN-man-s-best-friend · man's best friend · English
man's best friend · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | man's best friend |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “man's best friend” in English
Rare enough to double-check
man's best friend is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An affectionate term for a dog, or dogs in general.".
Zero misspellings are on record for man's best friend in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Refers to the millennia-long history of close relations, loyalty, friendship, and companionship of dogs with humans. The correct English form is man's best friend, spelled M-A-N-'-S- -B-E-S-T- -F-R-I-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1An affectionate term for a dog, or dogs in general.
Etymology
Refers to the millennia-long history of close relations, loyalty, friendship, and companionship of dogs with humans.
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.