street-smart
"street-smart" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“street-smart” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having practical rather than theoretical knowledge, like that learned on the streets rather than in the classroom.
Corpus desk
Index EN-street-smart · street-smart · English
street-smart · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | street-smart |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “street-smart” in English
Rare enough to double-check
street-smart is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having practical rather than theoretical knowledge, like that learned on the streets rather than in the classroom.".
Zero misspellings are on record for street-smart in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: Back-formation from street smarts. The correct English form is street-smart, spelled S-T-R-E-E-T---S-M-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Having practical rather than theoretical knowledge, like that learned on the streets rather than in the classroom.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how street-smart appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
im street smarter than him yo
For Liverpool, it capped six days of desperate disappointment after missing out on the Premier League to Manchester City by a single point then losing to this experienced, street-smart Real team.
Etymology
Back-formation from street smarts.
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.