most

Builds 43 distinct compound words — ranked #97 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: サイ
訓 kun: もっと.も

The superlative prefix. 最後 the last, 最初 the first, 最近 recently, 最高 the best. Attaches freely.

The ten most common compounds built on 最. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

43compounds built

1,405times those words occur

#113by productivity alone

#115by how often it turns up

Where 最 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 最. Each one opens its own map.

Words built on 最

最近さいきん315 uses

最初さいしょ289 uses

最後さいご174 uses

最高さいこう102 uses

最終さいしゅう63 uses

最大さいだい60 uses

最早もはや58 uses

最新さいしん44 uses

最良さいりょう36 uses

最大限さいだいげん35 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.