youngest
/ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/
"youngest" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“youngest” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,646. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,646
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - superlative form of young: most young
Corpus desk
Index EN-youngest · youngest · English
youngest · rank #6,646 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,646
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH withdrawal
Nearest frequency peer: withdrawal (-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 “youngest”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- withdraw
withdraw
93,357 corpus weight
- withdrawal
withdrawal
93,356 corpus weight
- youngest
youngest
93,355 corpus weight
- aging
aging
93,354 corpus weight
- airline
airline
93,353 corpus weight
- anyways
anyways
93,351 corpus weight
What this shows “youngest” 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 | youngest |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “youngest”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around youngest (IPA /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,646 among 366 “Y” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for youngest, with forms such as "oyungest", "yonugest", and "yougnest". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Youngs", "younger", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 youngest, spelled Y-O-U-N-G-E-S-T.
Definition
- 1superlative form of young: most young
- 2Most recently begun or formed.
- 3Receiving dealt cards last, i.e. immediately before the next deal to the eldest.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how youngest appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I may be the youngest in my family but I still resent being referred to as the baby.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oyungest
- yonugest
- yougnest
- younegst
- youngesst
- youngestt
- youngets
- younggest
- youngset
- younngest
- yuongest
- yyoungest
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of youngest - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "youngest", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).