weakest
/ˈwiːkɪst/
"weakest" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“weakest” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,271. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,271
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superlative form of weak: most weak
Corpus desk
Index EN-weakest · weakest · English
weakest · rank #13,271 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,271
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wartime
Nearest frequency peer: wartime (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “weakest”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- vibration
vibration
86,733 corpus weight
- wartime
wartime
86,731 corpus weight
- weakest
weakest
86,730 corpus weight
- wicket
wicket
86,729 corpus weight
- Winnipeg
Winnipeg
86,728 corpus weight
- Worcester
Worcester
86,727 corpus weight
What this shows “weakest” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | weakest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈwiːkɪst/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “weakest”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around weakest (IPA /ˈwiːkɪst/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,271 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "superlative form of weak: most weak".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for weakest, with forms such as "ewakest", "waekest", and "weaekst". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "weakness", "weaker", "weaken", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is weakest, spelled W-E-A-K-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of weak: most weak
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ewakest
- waekest
- weaekst
- weakesst
- weakestt
- weakets
- weakkest
- weakset
- wekaest
- wweakest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of weakest - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "weakest", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).