snobbish
/ˈsnɒbɪʃ/
"snobbish" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“snobbish” is uncommon English (frequency #53,265 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,265
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors.
Corpus desk
Index EN-snobbish · snobbish · English
snobbish · rank #53,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,265
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Snowdonia
Nearest frequency peer: Snowdonia (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “snobbish”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Slovakian
Slovakian
46,740 corpus weight
- Smirnoff
Smirnoff
46,738 corpus weight
- snobbish
snobbish
46,736 corpus weight
- Snowdonia
Snowdonia
46,735 corpus weight
- soapbox
soapbox
46,734 corpus weight
- spindles
spindles
46,732 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “snobbish” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | snobbish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsnɒbɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “snobbish” in English
Rare enough to double-check
snobbish is uncommon English at frequency #53,265 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈsnɒbɪʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for snobbish in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From snob + -ish. The correct English form is snobbish, spelled S-N-O-B-B-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how snobbish appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
St Cyprian's was an expensive and snobbish school which was in process of becoming more snobbish, and, I imagine, more expensive.
Etymology
From snob + -ish.
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); 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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