poorest
"poorest" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“poorest” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,095. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,095
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superlative form of poor: most poor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-poorest · poorest · English
poorest · rank #16,095 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,095
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pong
Nearest frequency peer: pong (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “poorest”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- plated
plated
83,909 corpus weight
- pods
pods
83,908 corpus weight
- pong
pong
83,907 corpus weight
- poorest
poorest
83,906 corpus weight
- prompting
prompting
83,904 corpus weight
- prosper
prosper
83,903 corpus weight
What this shows “poorest” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poorest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “poorest”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around poorest, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,095 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "superlative form of poor: most poor.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for poorest, with forms such as "oporest", "pooerst", and "pooresst". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pores", "purest", "protest", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is poorest, spelled P-O-O-R-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of poor: most poor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poorest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oporest
- pooerst
- pooresst
- poorestt
- poorets
- poorrest
- poorset
- porest
- poroest
- ppoorest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poorest - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poorest", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).