severest
/səˈvɪɹəst/
"severest" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“severest” is uncommon English (frequency #88,839 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,839
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superlative form of severe: most severe
Corpus desk
Index EN-severest · severest · English
severest · rank #88,839 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,839
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH selly
Nearest frequency peer: selly (-2 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.
Long-tail ranks near “severest”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- seismically
seismically
11,167 corpus weight
- selly
selly
11,164 corpus weight
- severest
severest
11,162 corpus weight
- shapewear
shapewear
11,160 corpus weight
- sharer
sharer
11,158 corpus weight
- sheerness
sheerness
11,157 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “severest” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | severest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /səˈvɪɹəst/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,839 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “severest” in English
Rare enough to double-check
severest is uncommon English at frequency #88,839 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /səˈvɪɹəst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "superlative form of severe: most severe".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for severest, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: severe + -est The correct English form is severest, spelled S-E-V-E-R-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of severe: most severe
Etymology
severe + -est
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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