top drawer

adj

"top-drawer" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“top drawer” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of the highest quality.

Corpus desk

Index EN-top-drawer · top drawer · English

top drawer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "T" 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.

Key facts for top drawer
PropertyValue
Headwordtop drawer
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “top drawer” in English

top drawerranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

top drawer is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of the highest quality.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for top drawer, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is top drawer, spelled T-O-P- -D-R-A-W-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Of the highest quality.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how top drawer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "How do I look," she said. "How's my ass look? My ass okay?"

Synonyms

Antonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "top drawer"?
"top drawer" is spelled T-O-P- -D-R-A-W-E-R.
What does "top drawer" mean?
As an adjective, "top drawer" means: Of the highest quality.
What language does "top drawer" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list