plainspoken
adjective
plainspoken is an adjective meaning “Speaking in a forthright manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-L-A-I-N-S-P-O-K-E-N, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does plainspoken mean?
adjective
- 1
Speaking in a forthright manner.
He was a plainspoken fellow with plenty of amazing stories to tell.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce plainspoken?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-plainspoken.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of plainspoken
- more plainspoken comparative
- most plainspoken superlative
- plain-spoken
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is plainspoken?
Plainspoken appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Plainspoken in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does plainspoken come from?
From plain + spoken.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).