Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

likeliest

/lˈaɪkliəst/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

Syllables: like-li-est
IPA: /lˈaɪkliəst/

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

superlative form of likely: most likely

Example Sentences

"... the common man of pleasure and the frivolous woman of fashion, still the wisest way to fuse their minds to union, the likeliest receipt for moral good and social comfort, would have been this course of foreign scenes, of new faces,[…]"

Questions

How do you pronounce likeliest?: The recorded pronunciation is /lˈaɪkliəst/.
What does likeliest mean?: superlative form of likely: most likely

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