Oftenest

Part of speech: adverb

Definitions

1. This expression indicates the condition of happening more frequently than any other instances
2. it describes the action or state that takes place at the highest rate among a set of occurrences
3. Happening more times than any other within a given context

Etymology: "Oftenest" is the superlative of "often", and it is one of those forms that English has largely dropped in favour of "most often". The older base word traces back through Middle English "ofte" and "oft" to Old English "oft", which meant the same thing and reached back to a Proto-Germanic root "*ufta". That root has descendants across the Germanic family, from German "oft" and Swedish "ofta" to Gothic "ufta", so the word is an ancient inheritance rather than a borrowing. The final -n in "often" is an addition from Middle English, made by analogy with "seldom", which sounds similar in its use as a frequency adverb. Because "often" had acquired that extra consonant, the superlative built on it took the form "oftenest", with the usual -est ending added to the adverb. Forms like this were once common, and "oftenest" survived in use for centuries alongside the more analytic phrasing that eventually became standard.

Synonyms: most frequently, most often

Antonyms: seldom, rarely