sound as a bell
"sound-as-a-bell" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sound as a bell” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - In excellent condition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sound as a bell |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sound as a bell” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sound as a bell is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In excellent condition.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sound as a bell, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is sound as a bell, spelled S-O-U-N-D- -A-S- -A- -B-E-L-L.
Definition
- 1In excellent condition.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sound as a bell”
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- The one correct English spelling is S-O-U-N-D- -A-S- -A- -B-E-L-L - 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.