party animal
"party-animal" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“party animal” 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 person known for frequent, enthusiastic attendance at parties, especially one whose partying behavior is exuberant or excessive.
Corpus desk
Index EN-party-animal · party animal · English
party animal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | party animal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “party animal” in English
Rare enough to double-check
party animal is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person known for frequent, enthusiastic attendance at parties, especially one whose partying behavior is exuberant or excessive.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for party animal, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is party animal, spelled P-A-R-T-Y- -A-N-I-M-A-L.
Definition
- 1A person known for frequent, enthusiastic attendance at parties, especially one whose partying behavior is exuberant or excessive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how party animal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
. . . Tad Allagash, a stripling adman and Manhattan party animal with inexhaustible supplies of Bolivian Marching Powder (coy for cocaine).
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.