young man
"young-man" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“young man” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A term of endearment or admonishment by adults for a young boy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-young-man · young man · English
young man · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Y" 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 | young man |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “young man” in English
Rare enough to double-check
young man is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for young man, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is young man, spelled Y-O-U-N-G- -M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A term of endearment or admonishment by adults for a young boy.
- 2A male lover; a sweetheart.
- 3Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see young, man.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how young man appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I can't understand you, young man. Can you point to which toy you want?
That does it, young man! You are excused to your room!
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.