remotest
"remotest" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“remotest” is uncommon English (frequency #57,015 among 21,470 “R” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,015
- frequency rank, English
- 21,470
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - superlative form of remote: most remote
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | remotest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “remotest” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
remotest is uncommon English at frequency #57,015 among 21,470 “R” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "superlative form of remote: most remote".
remotest has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is remotest, spelled R-E-M-O-T-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of remote: most remote
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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Using “remotest”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-M-O-T-E-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.