wide awake
"wide-awake" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wide awake” 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) - Awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wide-awake · wide awake · English
wide awake · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" 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 | wide awake |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wide awake” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wide awake is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for wide awake, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is wide awake, spelled W-I-D-E- -A-W-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1Awake and very alert; vigilant, watchful.
- 2Keyed in or aware of things; not oblivious; woke.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wide awake appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"They are almost awake, not quite," said Lucy. She knew she herself was wide awake, wider than anyone usually is.
Why is marking a book indispensable to reading it? First, it keeps you awake—not merely conscious, but wide awake.
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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.