open-minded

adj

"open-minded" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“open-minded” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Willing to consider new and different concepts, ideas, or opinions.

Corpus desk

Index EN-open-minded · open-minded · English

open-minded · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "O" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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 open-minded
PropertyValue
Headwordopen-minded
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “open-minded” in English

open-mindedsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

open-minded is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Willing to consider new and different concepts, ideas, or opinions.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for open-minded, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Etymologically, the entry records: From open + minded. The correct English form is open-minded, spelled O-P-E-N---M-I-N-D-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Willing to consider new and different concepts, ideas, or opinions.

Etymology

From open + minded.

Synonyms

Antonyms

closed-mindedclose-mindednarrow-minded

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "open-minded"?
"open-minded" is spelled O-P-E-N---M-I-N-D-E-D.
What does "open-minded" mean?
As an adjective, "open-minded" means: Willing to consider new and different concepts, ideas, or opinions.
What is the origin of the word "open-minded"?
From open + minded. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list