Height or hight?
height is a noun meaning “The distance from the base to the top of something”; hight is a verb meaning “To call, name”. They sound the same (/haɪt/). In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) height is about 107 times as common as hight.
What is the difference between height and hight?
| height | hight | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | verb, adjective |
| Meaning | The distance from the base to the top of something The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse) | |
| Example | – What's your height? – 180 centimetres | King Arthur's court was hight Camelot |
| Forms | heights | hights, highting |
| Pronunciation | /haɪt/ /heɪt/ | /haɪt/ |
| In writing | 34 times per million words | about once in every 3 million words |
Sources: height and hight in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of height and hight
height
- 1
The distance from the base to the top of something
- 2
The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse)
– What's your height? – 180 centimetres
- 3
The minimum distance from a vertex of a triangle to (the extension of) the edge opposite, namely along a line perpendicular to the edge
The area of a triangle is "a half base times height"
- 4
The amplitude of a sinusoid
- 5
The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level
We flew at a height of 15 000 meters
- 6
A high point
- 7
The highest point or maximum degree
She's at the height of her career
- 8
A mountain, especially a very high one
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, height or hight?
height appears 34 times per million words; hight about once in every 3 million words.
height 34 times per million wordshight about once in every 3 million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search height vs hight?
“height vs hight” is searched about 880 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“hight vs height”, “height or hight”).
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