riskiest
SayRIS-kee-ist/ˈɹɪskiɪst/
- 1Superlative of risky.
Investors flagged the startup as the riskiest bet in their portfolio.
Crossing the glacier at night proved to be the riskiest leg of the expedition.
Note
The top of the scale for a two-syllable adjective that inflects rather than adding a separate word: the final y turns to i before -est, as in riskier and riskiest, and this form is preferred over most risky. It belongs to the 'dangerous' sense alone. Where risky stands in, by misspelling, for risqué, the superlative to write is most risqué, not riskiest.
riskiest is a form of risky
risky, adjective: Involving the possibility of danger, harm, or loss. Full entry
- Spelling
- risky → riskiest: change y to i, add -est
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