middle class
"middle-class" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“middle class” 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) - A social and economic class lying above the working class and below the upper class.
Corpus desk
Index EN-middle-class · middle class · English
middle class · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | middle class |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “middle class” in English
Rare enough to double-check
middle class is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for middle class in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is middle class, spelled M-I-D-D-L-E- -C-L-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1A social and economic class lying above the working class and below the upper class.
- 2The groups in society composed of professionals, semi-professionals, and lower to middle managerial level workers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how middle class appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.
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.