upper class
/ˌʌpəˈklɑːs/
"upper-class" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“upper class” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Those people at the top of a social hierarchy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-upper-class · upper class · English
upper class · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" 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 | upper class |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌʌpəˈklɑːs/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “upper class” in English
Rare enough to double-check
upper class is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌʌpəˈklɑːs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
upper class has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is upper class, spelled U-P-P-E-R- -C-L-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Those people at the top of a social hierarchy.
- 2The aristocracy.
Synonyms
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.