likeliest

L1I1K5E1L1I1E1S1T1

A form of likely — Probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring.

UncommonScrabble 13
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

adjective
  1. raresuperlativesuperlative form of likely: most likely

    ... 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,[…]

    c. 1853, Martin Tupper, The Complete Prose Works, Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 144
Cite this entry
APA

likeliest. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/likeliest

MLA

“likeliest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/likeliest. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “likeliest,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/likeliest.

Source: likeliest on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.