meaning of life

noun

"meaning-of-life" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
15
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A hypothetical answer to all of life's ultimate questions; the purpose or raison d'être of human life.

Corpus desk

Index EN-meaning-of-life · meaning of life · English

meaning of life · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-6 6 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.

Key facts for meaning of life
PropertyValue
Headwordmeaning of life
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “meaning of life” sits in English frequency

meaning of life falls 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

meaning of life is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A hypothetical answer to all of life's ultimate questions; the purpose or raison d'être of human life.".

No misspelling variants are generated for meaning of life in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is meaning of life, spelled M-E-A-N-I-N-G- -O-F- -L-I-F-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    A hypothetical answer to all of life's ultimate questions; the purpose or raison d'être of human life.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "meaning of life"?
"meaning of life" is spelled M-E-A-N-I-N-G- -O-F- -L-I-F-E.
What does "meaning of life" mean?
As a noun, "meaning of life" means: A hypothetical answer to all of life's ultimate questions; the purpose or raison d'être of human life.
What language does "meaning of life" come from?
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list