channel hop
"channel-hop" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“channel hop” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To quickly scan the channels on a television using a remote control.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | channel hop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “channel hop” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
channel hop is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To quickly scan the channels on a television using a remote control.".
channel hop doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is channel hop, spelled C-H-A-N-N-E-L- -H-O-P.
Definition
- 1To quickly scan the channels on a television using a remote control.
Synonyms
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 “channel hop”
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- The one correct English spelling is C-H-A-N-N-E-L- -H-O-P - 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.