youngsome

adj

"youngsome" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“youngsome” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. 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) - Seemingly young in appearance, manner, or behaviour; youthful

Corpus desk

Index EN-youngsome · youngsome · English

youngsome · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "Y" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for youngsome
PropertyValue
Headwordyoungsome
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “youngsome” in English

youngsomefalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

youngsome is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Seemingly young in appearance, manner, or behaviour; youthful".

youngsome has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From young + -some. The correct English form is youngsome, spelled Y-O-U-N-G-S-O-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Seemingly young in appearance, manner, or behaviour; youthful

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how youngsome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. We hope no literal reader will misunderstand us; for Dr. BRIGHAM's family numbers some four hundred and fifty members, and he is yet a youngsome man. All that was here to be seen, we saw ; and of much that we beheld we shall discourse hereafter.
  2. […] a barbecue, as it is probable they have done in some other colleges, nor yet have our faculty adopted this mode of dress very generally for themselves, though one or two of the more youngsome members have been seen thus habited; […]

Etymology

From young + -some.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "youngsome"?
"youngsome" is spelled Y-O-U-N-G-S-O-M-E.
What does "youngsome" mean?
As an adjective, "youngsome" means: Seemingly young in appearance, manner, or behaviour; youthful
What is the origin of the word "youngsome"?
From young + -some. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list