bounty hunter
"bounty-hunter" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bounty hunter” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person who catches criminals and brings them to the police in return for a reward.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bounty hunter |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bounty hunter” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bounty hunter is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who catches criminals and brings them to the police in return for a reward.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bounty hunter in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is bounty hunter, spelled B-O-U-N-T-Y- -H-U-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1A person who catches criminals and brings them to the police in return for a reward.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bounty hunter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-O-U-N-T-Y- -H-U-N-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.