somesuch
adjective, pronoun
somesuch is an adjective meaning “Of the same or similar kind” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-O-M-E-S-U-C-H, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does somesuch mean?
adjective
- 1
Of the same or similar kind.
somesuch excuse.
pronoun
- 1
Other things of the same kind or type.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of somesuch
- some such
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is somesuch?
Somesuch appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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).
Where does somesuch come from?
Univerbation of some + such.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).